Alcatel-Lucent faces LG and Apple in patent trial

Apple and LG Electronics infringed an Alcatel-Lucent unit's patents for electronic devices including phones and computers, a lawyer said at the start of a trial.

The jury trial, which began on Tuesday in federal court in San Diego, stems from a 2010 lawsuit by the Paris-based company's Multimedia Patent Trust accusing Apple and LG of copying video-compression technology that allows data to be sent more efficiently over communications media, including the internet and satellites, or stored on DVDs and Blu-ray discs.

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