Apple, LG Electronics Defeat Alcatel-Lucent Patent Claims

Apple and LG Electronics didn’t infringe an Alcatel-Lucent unit’s patents for electronic devices including phones and computers, a jury said. The verdict came after a trial that began Nov. 27 in federal court in San Diego over 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 claimed its patents were infringed by products including multiple versions of Apple’s iPhone, iPod, iPad and MacBook, as well as LG Electronics’ Chocolate Touch VX8575, Bliss UX700, Touch AX8575, Lotus Elite LX610, Mystique UN610 and Samba LG8575.