TORONTO – Digital media distribution company YANGAROO said there will be no impact whatsoever from the recent allowance of Destiny Media Technologies Inc.’s U.S. patent application on its intellectual property rights.
“None of our two granted U.S. and Canadian patents, our pending U.S. patents, or our $15 million infringement and $25 million defamation claims against Destiny will be affected,” said YANGAROO President and CEO John Heaven. “The content of their patent applications has been reviewed in both the Canadian and the U.S. prosecution of our patent applications and no examiner has ever considered the content of their applications relevant to the patentability of our claims.”
YANGAROO said in a statement that Destiny had previously abandoned the corresponding application in Canada, and then after several years of inactivity revived and amended the same application in the U.S to narrow the claims.
Destiny has no application in Canada or bearing on YANGAROO’s Canadian patent or the Canadian $15 million infringement claim against Destiny, according to YANGAROO.
The Destiny application for Music Protected by Encryption narrowly claims a specific key management process for decrypting media delivered in a single file, noted YANGAROO in a media release. In other words, with Destiny’s system, the decryption process at the user’s end relies on a decryption key that is itself encrypted with a user key which is bonded to the user’s computing device.
YANGAROO said neither its Digital Media Distribution System (DMDS), nor its granted and pending patents fall within the claims contained in Destiny’s application.
