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Apple Sued Over Alleged Apple TV Patent Infringements
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News — ... Nick Kalayjian, is now an engineering manager at Tesla Motors. He says when he held the position of senior hardware systems integrator at Apple, he wasn’t involved in the development of Apple TV. As we know, the Mark Papermaster saga has gone on for a few months now, even though poaching talent from one company to another seems like fair game in the tech industry. Noncompete agreements tend to mean much less in the state of California, which also helps. Read - FDC Filings & Dockets

Apple sued over Apple TV, Airport Express and Mac
The Apple Core — ... , a Bannockburn, IL maker of wireless entertainment devices, filed a lawsuit against Apple on Tuesday, claiming that the Apple TV, Airport Express, and Macintosh itself infringe on its patents which it o btained from Universal Electronics (UEI) in March. In the complaint, EZ4Media alleges that Apple hired three former UEI employees about a year before it introduced Apple TV and that the employees had access to UEI’s confidential and proprietary information. The employees allegedly left UEI for Apple within 30 days of each other in the second quarter of 2005 . Apple ...

Apple sued for patent infringement over Apple TV
MacDailyNews — Apple sued for patent infringement over Apple TV Friday, December 19, 2008 - 01:35 PM EST Apple Inc. has been sued for patent infringement by EZ4Media Inc., an Illinois maker of wireless set-top boxes in a lawsuit filed December 16, 2008 in Illinois Northern District Court ( 1:2008cv07192 ). The company said Apple TV, AirPort Express, and Macintosh computers infringe on patents EZ4Media acquired from Universal Electronics Inc. in March. EZ4Media says Apple was able to get at its technology by hiring former Universal Electronics employees Nick Kalayjian, Bruce Edwards, and ...

Under the gavel: EZ4Media alleges infringement in the air
Macworld — ... )! The company  alleges that Apple has violated several of their patents  with features in the Apple TV, Airport Express, and the Mac.  EZ4Media makes a device called EZfetch that you can hook up to your TV to display your media, wireless transferred from other sources in your house. Sure, it sounds like the Apple TV, but there’s dozens of devices out there that do the same thing—a fact that EZ4Media is quite aware of, as earlier this year it sued Logitech, Netgear, D-Link, Samsung, Pioneer, Yamaha, and Denon. Everybody, now!  The patents in question were acquired by EZ4Media ...

Under the gavel: EZ4Media alleges infringement in the air
MacUser — ... )! The company  alleges that Apple has violated several of their patents  with features in the Apple TV, Airport Express, and the Mac.  EZ4Media makes a device called EZfetch that you can hook up to your TV to display your media, wireless transferred from other sources in your house. Sure, it sounds like the Apple TV, but there’s dozens of devices out there that do the same thing—a fact that EZ4Media is quite aware of, as earlier this year it sued Logitech, Netgear, D-Link, Samsung, Pioneer, Yamaha, and Denon. Everybody, now!  The patents in question were acquired by EZ4Media ...