Apple. and LG Electronics are set to face trial over claims
by an Alcatel-Lucent SA (ALU) unit that they infringed patents for electronic
devices including phones and computers.
The jury trial, scheduled to begin today in federal court in
San Diego, stems from a 2010 lawsuit by the Paris-based company’s Multimedia
Patent Trust accusing Apple and LG Electronics of copying video-compression
technology that allows data to be sent more efficiently over communications
media, including the Internet and satellites, or stored on DVDs and Blu-Ray
disks.
The trust claims its patents are infringed by products
including multiple versions of Apple’s iPhone, iPod, iPad and MacBook, as well
as LG Electronics’s……
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