Patents - AIM Sport Vision v Supponor
Etihad Stadium Author Cléria De Souza Licence CC BY 2.0 Source Wikimedia Commons Jane Lambert Patents Court (Mr Justice Meade) AIM Sport Vision AG v Supponor Ltd and anothe r [2023] EWHC 164 (Pat) (30 Jan 2023) In AIM Sport Vision AG v Supponor Ltd and another [2023] EWHC 164 (Pat) (30 Jan 2023), the claimant, AIM Sport Vision ("AIM"), accused the defendants, Supponor OY and Supponor Ltd. ("Supponor") of infringing its European patent (UK) 3 295 663 B1 for digitally overlaying an image with another image with their "SVB System". The invention for which that patent had been granted enables the superimposition of advertisements in TV broadcasts of sporting events that are different from the advertisements seen by spectators on billboards in the stadium. They are also different from advertisements appearing in other television broadcasts of the same game. Thus, the spectators in the stadium may see...