Sonic Solutions, the company that recently aquired Roxio, has send us a press release announcing that it has filed suit against Nero AG and it's affiliate in the United States, Nero Inc. The company is claiming that Nero is infriging on Sonic's U.S. Patent No. 6,204,840 which has been filed in 1998 and relates to certain techniques for 'digital multimedia composition'.
Among other applications, the patent covers improved ways to create digitial videos using a graphical 'storyline' to sequence individual video segments.
