Consumer electronics company LG has asked the International Trade Commission to block the sale of the PlayStation 3 console. The company is having a patent dispute with Sony over several Bravia television sets and Blu-Ray players that it claims infringe on four of its patents. The PS3 includes a Blu-Ray player, which is why LG has named it as one of the products it wants an injunction against.

LG has also filed a lawsuit against Sony in California, seeking unspecified damages. The court action is due to the ITC's inability to award cash damages.

[URL=http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-07/lg-files-patent-complaints-against-sony-over-tvs-playstations.html]Bloomberg[/URL] reports that these patent infringement claims related to the PS3 revolve around "a way of dealing with multiple data streams, such as different camera angles, as well as a system to reproduce data that's stored on a read-only device." [URL=http://www.gamepolitics.com/2011/02/08/lg-takes-sony-itc-over-tvs-blu-rays-and-ps3s][B][COLOR=#8e0505]Read More[/COLOR][/B][/URL]

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