RIP Viva Metal Box

[MifuneFan]

For those that don't know, Viva was brought to court by Glud & Marstrand, the company that owns Steelbooks™. They hold patents for metal container packaging for movies, and thus sued Viva for patent infringement. As a result Viva is now barred from manufacturing and selling Viva Metal Boxes, at least in the US

The Court permanently RESTRAINS AND ENJOINS Defendants Viva Magnetics Ltd. (Hong Kong), Viva USA, Inc., Viva Media Packaging (Canada) Ltd., Viva Metal Packaging Ltd. and Viva Media Packaging Ltd. (collectively, “Viva defendants”), their duly authorized agents, servants, employees, and all others in active concert or participation with the Viva defendants from (a) infringing the following United States patents of plaintiff Glud & Marstrand A/S (“G&M”): 7,051,872; 7,232,032; 7,350,642; and D562,049, and (b) making, using, offering to sell, selling and/or importing (i) the Viva Metal Box for Blu-Ray and DVD products accused of infringement in this action, and/or (ii) the Digital Versatile Disk (DVD) case accused of infringement in the 2005 action between G&M and some of the Viva defendant

Initial court case document: http://www.scribd.com/doc/85682389/G...ong-Kong-et-al