It doesn’t always go this smoothly.
Context:
- In June 2025, Velos Media sued ByteDance (TikTok) in the Western District of Texas over six High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC/H.265) patents. ByteDance brought a FRAND (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory) rate-setting case in China with the objective of the court ordering Velos to grant a license. There was also the risk of a Chinese antisuit injunction against the U.S. proceedings.
- On January 16, 2026 Velos Media filed a motion for an anti-interference injunction (AII) in order to protect the U.S. proceedings.
- A week ago (Friday, February 6, 2026), Velos requested and immediately obtained a temporary restraining order (TRO) barring ByteDance from taking any action in China against Velos Media’s pursuit of an AII or its U.S. patent enforcement. This was necessitated by ByteDance filing a motion for an anti-anti-interference injunction (AAII) in China (of which you can find a translation further below) that could have derailed the U.S. AII proceedings. An injunction hearing was held on Tuesday (February 10, 2026).
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Counsel
Counsel for Velos Media
McKool Smith’s Warren Lipschitz, Nina Labovich, Christopher Leone, Eliza Beeney, Eric S. Hansen, Erik B. Fountain, Jamie Levien, Jennifer L. Truelove, Kevin Lee Burgess, Raymond Mitchell Verboncoeur, and Sam F. Baxter; and The Dacus Firm’s Deron R. Dacus.
Counsel for ByteDance
Quinn Emanuel’s Kevin Hardy, Sean San-Chul Pak, Melissa J. Baily, Ognjen Zivojnovic, Patrick D. Curran, Sam Stake, and Valerie Anne Lozano; and Gillam & Smith’s James Travis Underwood and Melissa Richards Smith.