New DVD6C Patent Pool Sues California Replicator on DVD Infringement
Replicator Encore Media Services and several adult DVD distributors and the individuals who run them are producing and marketing DVDs without a license from the DVDC6 one-stop-shop patent pool, alleged a patent infringement complaint. It alleged violations of eight DVD…
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patents, two each held by Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Sanyo and Warner Home Entertainment, on behalf of themselves and the rest of the nine DVD6C members. Also named as defendants are Barracuda Entertainment, Caballero Video, Davenport International, DVD Factory, Max Morris Enterprises, M. Morris Inc., Rodax Distributors, 6480 Corp. and the individuals Daniel Mamane, Gerold Pool and Tomer Yoffe. Representatives of the defendants didn’t comment on the suit, which was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. Hitachi, JVC Kenwood, Samsung, Sharp and Toshiba also are DVD6C members. Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Sanyo and Warner filed a nearly identical April complaint against World Media Group. It was settled in September, terms undisclosed, court documents show. Defendants Caballero, Rodax and M. Morris Inc. and their principals Mamane and Yoffe last got legal notoriety in 2012 when Ben & Jerry’s won an injunction against them in U.S. District Court in Manhattan for marketing adult DVDs that played on familiar names of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavors and bore logos that were nearly “identical” to the real thing, said the ice cream maker's complaint. The defendants signed a consent judgment in July 2013 agreeing to various sanctions, including an order pulling all the offending DVDs from the shelves.