Volfoni has announced it has voluntarily withdrawn its opposition against the granting of RealD’s patent number EP2067066 in Europe.
According to the company, it made this decision due to the fact there is no infringement between Volfoni’s current generation of products and RealD’s patent. Consequently, the patent will now continue to prevent other third-party companies like GetD, LeVision and DepthQ, from competing against Volfoni’s own products, both in Europe and the rest of the world.
The European patent is part of the US8220934 patent family owned by RealD and absolutely mandates the use of an optical component called a polarisation rotator in order to be able to function correctly. However, Volfoni claims to have developed its own 3D technology that eliminates the necessity of using this component.
Volfoni’s technology is protected by its own US granted patent, as well as a host of other granted and pending patents throughout the world. The company claims that, since none of its current products use a “polarisation rotator”, they don’t infringe any of RealD’s patents. Despite this, RealD recently filed a lawsuit against Volfoni, based on its analysis that a “polarisation rotator” was in fact present in its current products. Volfoni has stated that it welcomes the opportunity to prove that its products do not infringe this patent.
