Yet another patent battle involving Apple began today in California court. Alcatel-Lucent's Multimedia Patent Trust accused co-defendants Apple and LG Electronics in 2010 of violating its patents involving video compression technology. The suit involves compression used in the MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 compression technologies that have been passed to the Alcatel-Lucent patent holding company over the years, and are being asserted against Apple's entire product line.
