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    APPLE v RED as lawyers petition for cancellation of RAW patent claims

    Andrew Reid (EOSHD)By Andrew Reid (EOSHD)August 15, 2019 News 2 Mins Read

    Cupertino tech giant Apple has launched a legal petition vs RED at the US Patent Office, which began in May this year.

    The backstory to this isn’t public knowledge at the moment. My speculative opinion is:

    1. Apple were subject to the usual RED patent legal process over ProRes RAW and didn’t like it.
    2. BOOM the fight back was initiated

    The key patent in question is:

    U.S. Patent No. 9,245,314 (“the ’314 patent,” Ex. 1001) is directed to “a video camera” configured to “capture, compress, and store video image data in a memory of the video camera.”

    … My understanding is this expressively relates to compressed RAW of at least 6:1 and at least 2K or 4K resolution (Redcode), which is what Apple is challenging the novelty of here.

    As part of the legal petition by Apple’s lawyers, Cupertino have enlisted British imaging scientist Cliff Reader, Ph.D. at a rate of $600 per hour to lead a charge to “demonstrate that [RED’s] claims are unpatentable”.

    The legal documents go onto say “Petitioner, Apple Inc., respectfully requests that these claims be canceled”, followed by an overview of key RED patent ‘314.

    Under chapter VI. “CLAIM CONSTRUCTION”, the following claims of the RED patent are addressed by Mr Reader.

    • “Raw Mosaiced Image Data”.
    • “Demosaiced Motion Video Data”.
    • “Substantially Visually Lossless”.
    • “Memory device sufficiently large to store image data from the compression module”.

    View the Apple Legal Papers here

    And here, including RED’s response

    apple codec legal patent petition raw red
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