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MD equipment bears the label “US and Foreign Patents licensed from Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation,\ why is that?

April 26, 2017bears Dolby equipment foreign Label laboratories licensed patents

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MD equipment bears the label “US and Foreign Patents licensed from Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation,\ why is that?

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Sony, in the process of developing ATRAC, unknowingly employed techniques that were covered in prior Dolby patents. Sony made a licensing agreement with Dolby to avoid (or as the result of) a legal challenge from them. Dolby doesn’t own all of ATRAC, just some part(s) of it.