SightSound Dispute Over Paid Music Download Patent Goes to Trial

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 31, 2003 - 8:59am.

Mount Lebanon, Pa. -- SightSound Technologies, a distributor of downloadable music and movies on behalf of providers like Comedy Central and Destination Films, announced that a federal court has ruled in its favor in a long-running patent dispute with several subsidiaries of German media conglomerate Bertelsmann. SightSound owns a patent the company says covers the process of selling downloadable music and video over the Internet. The company said that the court granted its request for summary judgment, denying one of Bertelsmann's counterclaims. The decision also rejected Bertelsmann's summary judgment motion attacking the validity of SightSound patents. The lawsuit, originally filed in 1998, will now go to a full trial. "We are very pleased with the Court's thorough and well-reasoned opinion and we look forward to taking this case to trial," said lead counsel William Wells of Kenyon & Kenyon.
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