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Samsung Electronics sued for violation of patented MP3 technology
South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. was sued by a U.S. tech company for its alleged infringement on patented technology related to MP3 music player production, sources said Saturday.
According to Seattle Post-Intelligence, a U.S. Internet news service, Texas MP3 Technologies Ltd. filed the lawsuit on Feb. 16 against Samsung, Apple Inc. and SanDisk Corp. in a federal court there, claiming the companies violated its sound-reproducing technology.
It is the first time for Samsung to be sued in relation to MP3 music player technologies, though it has faced legal action in the semiconductor and flat panel-making industries.
The suit seems to target the music players made by the three companies, including Apple's top-selling iPod and SanDisk's Sansa, the news service said.
The global portable music player market is growing at a fast pace. According to market researcher NPD Group, the U.S. market alone was worth US$6.1 billion last year.
Seoul, Feb. 24 (Yonhap News)
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