The DVD6C Licensing Group (DVD6C) announced that its authorized licensor, Toshiba, is suing American Media International, LLC to collect royalties allegedly due under the DVD6C patent license.

As a matter of background, the DVD6C Licensing Group (DVD6C) is a patent pool formed by nine developers of DVD technology including Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric, Panasonic, Samsung, Sanyo Electric, Sharp, Toshiba, JVC, Time Warner.

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Unedited press release follows:

Toshiba, the authorized licensor for DVD6C, files lawsuit in federal court to collect patent royalties due from DVD disc replicator

February 2, 2012 — The DVD6C Licensing Group (“DVD6C”) – comprising nine leading developers of DVD technology — today announced that their authorized licensor, Toshiba, filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York to collect patent royalties due from American Media International, LLC – a DVD disc replicator. This action is part of a continuing global initiative by the DVD6C Licensing Group to enforce the DVD6C Patent License Agreement.