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According to Reuters, the company behind the enormously popular Flip Video YouTube/Blogging camcorder, Pure Digital Technology, is facing a patent suit in relation to the camcorders image compression software which, according to New York company Advanced Video Technologies, they hold the patent for and has been used without consent.
AVT filed the suit on Wednesday (16/04/08) at the U.S. District Court in lower Manhattan with respect to the ‘Full Duplex Single Chip Video Codec’ which facilitates the compression of video imagery into much reduced file sizes whilst retaining sharp image quality.
Thankfully for those seeking to purchase the Flip anytime soon, AVT is not, according to the report, seeking to cease the device’s sales at this juncture, however, they are seeking unspecified damages as well as royalties which, when you consider that Pure Digital Technology’s Flip Video presently has a 13% share in the camcorder market, will be substantial.
At the time of writing, Pure Digital Technology are yet to comment.
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[...] We await official word as well as the release of product imagery from Creative with baited breath, though we suspect that Pure Digital, having well and truly established the Flip as the ‘original’ YouTube/blogging camcorder will be loosing little sleep in the meantime (not least because they have other, rather more pressing issues to worry about at the moment). [...]