Sling Media seeks exclusion orders against three California companies for importing...
Sling Media seeks exclusion orders against three California companies for importing products from China with “placeshifting or display replication functionality” in violation of six Sling patents, Sling said in a Section 337 complaint filed Tuesday at the U.S. International Trade…
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Commission. The complaint alleged patent infringement by imports of from Belkin International, Monsoon Multimedia and C2 Microsystems. The products at issue allow users to watch their TVs remotely from a computer, tablet or smartphone. Monsoon manufactures devices that infringe Sling Media’s patents, imports them and sells them in the U.S. under the “Vulkano” and “HAVA” sub-brands, said the complaint to the ITC. It said Monsoon is also the original equipment manufacturer for Belkin, which imports devices made by Monsoon and sells them in the U.S. as its “@TV” line of products. C2 Microsystems manufactures an allegedly infringing “CC1203” system-on-a-chip component that “provides the media processing and control functionality” for the Belkin and Monsoon placeshifting products, Sling alleged. Sling also wants cease-and-desist orders imposed against all of three proposed respondents. Sling is owned by Dish Network sister firm EchoStar. Spokespeople for Belkin and Monsoon had no immediate comment on Sling’s complaint, and we couldn’t locate C2, and a company that said it had invested in C2 had no immediate response to our query.