Context: Last week, Judge Simone Gastesi Chevrand of the 6th Business Court of Rio de Janeiro granted Huawei an expert report-based preliminary injunction (PI) against Disney over a Brazilian High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) encoding patent, with a R$5 million ($1 million) penalty for non-compliance (October 21, 2026 ip fray article).
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Court and counsel
Appeal court: Court of Justice of the State of Rio de Janeiro. Disney asked for the appeal to be assigned to one of its Private Law Chambers.
Lower court: Judge Simone Gastesi Chevrand, 6th Business Court of the Capital District of Rio de Janeiro (case no. 3019978-93.2026.8.19.0001).
Huawei is being represented by Licks Attorneys’ (ip fray firm profile) Felipe Barros Oquendo, Otto Licks, and Pedro Campos, together with Luis Felipe Salomão Filho of SalomãoAdvogados.
Meanwhile, Disney is being represented by RNA Law’s Roberto Rodrigues, Vânia Aieta, Carolina Uzeda, Tatiana Alves, Karlo Tinoco, João Vitor Esteves, Maria Clara Tramontini, and Daniela Fernandes, as well as Bermudes Advogados’ Ricardo Loretti and Antônio Sardenberg Ferraço.