Cinemark is going to the mat with IMAX Corp.over IMAX’s allegations that a new movie theater concept from Cinemark is essentially a copy of IMAX’s well-known large-screen “immersion theaters,” according to court records.
The conflict produced two separate court cases earlier this month.
In one, filed in federal district court in Sherman Nov. 3, Plano-based Cinemark is doing a legal pre-emptive strike by seeking a court order declaring that its new theaters do not infringe on two IMAX patents.
The second suit, which Canada’s IMAX brought in New York state court nine days later, contends that Cinemark has, among other things, breached a contract between the two companies by “misappropriating” trade secrets that IMAX provided to Cinemark. Cinemark used the business relationship with IMAX to copy IMAX’s theater concept and then compete against IMAX, court documents allege.
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