Category: Multimedia
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Disney+ urged to compensate EU customers up to €62.8 million for removal of 4K, HDR: faces class-action suit
Consumer advocacy group Euroconsumers has issued the streaming giant with a formal notice to compensate customers in Italy, Belgium, and Portugal, threatening complaints with the Consumer Protection Cooperation (CPC) Network and a class-action suit.
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Comcast must pay WhereverTV $213 million for infringing X1 program guide patent, Florida jury finds
A Tampa jury found Comcast’s Xfinity X1 guide infringes WhereverTV’s patent, in a case the Federal Circuit revived last year. Post-trial motions come next, Comcast has signaled an appeal.
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BREAKING: Ericsson sues Disney in Brazil over multimedia patents
Ericsson has filed a patent infringement dispute against Disney in the Rio de Janeiro court over several multimedia patents.
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HDMI LA’s first IP dispute in decades ‘solidified’ licensing program, Chief Licensing Officer says
Having a judge confirm that everything you are doing is “spot on” affirmed that the program’s fees are fair and reasonable, HDMI LA’s Trudi Bordi tells ip fray in an interview.
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Disney hit with Delaware complaint from ETRI over video coding SEPs
ETRI claims that Disney was repeatedly contacted by Access Advance to take a (F)RAND license to the VDP pool, which would cover the asserted patents.
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Nokia sues Aylo over video encoding patent infringement in Eastern District of Texas
Nokia alleges Aylo ignored three licensing letters while encoding huge volumes of video with its patented techniques, so the plaintiff is now seeking damages going back six years in Marshall, Texas.
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Adeia appoints former Arm executive as CEO, with licensing into new verticals at the top of her to-do list
Dipti Vachani, who also worked at Intel and Texas Instruments, was previously focused on semiconductor licensing for the automotive and IoT segments.
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French consumer rights group urges Disney+ to compensate customers for switching off 4K following InterDigital injunctions
While Disney+ switched 4K back on again using a workaround in Germany, the streaming giant has not done the same in its other markets, including France.
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Dolby files first-ever patent infringement dispute related to Via Voice Codec Pool
Dolby has sued UK device maker Nothing Technology over a standard-essential patent related to EVS technologies, marking the first action related to Via’s Voice Codec Pool.
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Brazilian court-appointed expert finds Skyworth’s TVs infringe IP Bridge patent, rules it essential to AVC standard
A court-appointed expert yesterday issued a report finding a patent asserted by Japan’s IP Bridge against China’s Skyworth in the Rio de Janeiro State Court is being infringed by the latter’s television sets and receivers, and is essential to the H.264/AVC standard.