Audioholics Info Subpoenaed in LG Lawsuit?!

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Audioholics founder and president Gene DellaSala recently received an unusual and somewhat unsettling email from Google. The email said that Google had “received a subpoena for information related to (the Audioholics) Google account in a case entitled Multimedia Technologies PTE. Ltd. v. LG Electronics Inc. and LG Electronics U.S.A., Inc.” We later learned that this was an ongoing case in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, and that the lawsuit had been originally filed in December of 2022. The email served as notice that “Google may produce information related to (the Audioholics) Google account in response to this subpoena,” and that Gene would need to “email a file-stamped copy of a motion to quash or other type of formal objection” if he wanted to prevent Google from doing so. Gene had no desire to get tangled in a lawsuit, but asked me to try to figure out what was going on.

From the lawsuit:

Flex’s approach to Smart TV design allow (sic) for multiple benefits over a normal TVs and early attempts by competitors — including LG — at developing Smart TVs. One important improvement is that Flex’s approach enabled a Smart TV to present to a user an intuitive and easily operable overlay, rather than a cumbersome desktop approach, that provides a seamless user interaction capability in the television environment. Flex applied for and was granted dozens of patents that relate to intelligent TV technologies and the benefits derived therein, including the Asserted Patents. Flex subsequently assigned the Asserted Patents to Multimedia Technologies.

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