The lawsuit was filed in the US district court in Marshall, Texas, and alleges that Nero’s video editing software infringes Sonic’s US Patent number 6,204,840 – which relates to ‘digital multimedia composition techniques’. Among other things, the 1998 filed patent covers ways to create digital videos by using a graphical storylines to compose individual segments.
Shares of Sonic Solutions were down 22 cents at $14.85 yesterday afternoon.