Taiwan-based Amtran Technology, a major shareholder of US-based LCD TV vendor Vizio and also a major manufacturer for the brand, has stressed that it has already paid the royalties for MPEG-2 video compression technology.
Amtran was commenting on a lawsuit filed in the US against Vizio by competitors who accused it of violating MPEG-2 patents.
Amtran said for MPEG-2 it already paid the licensing fees to MPEG LA between the end of 2007 and the beginning of 2008.
But the company said it had yet to learn the details of the lawsuit, and therefore would not further comment on the issue. The lawsuit would not affect Vizio’s TV sales in the US in the short term, it added.
Amtran has reported NT$5.34 billion (US$157.788 million) in May sales, up 5.5% from the same month in 2007.
