OpenTV, Walt Disney settle ITV spat.(Patents)(Brief Article)
Multichannel News, July, 2004 by Donohue, Steve
OpenTV Corp. last week settled a long-running patent dispute with The Walt Disney Co. and subsidiaries ABC and ESPN, giving a lift to its stock. OpenTV's ACTV Inc. unit sued Disney, ABC and ESPN in December 2000, alleging that the companies violated ACTV patents with an "Enhanced TV" ITV offering, during such ABC programs such as Monday Night Football and Who Wants to Bea Millionaire, as well as ESPN's Sunday Night Football.
OpenTV inherited the litigation when it acquired the struggling ACTV in June 2003. As part of the settlement that was announced last Wednesday, OpenTV said it granted Disney a "nonexclusive, royalty-bearing license" to use and exploit the ACTV patents involved with the lawsuit. OpenTV also said that it entered...
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