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Contract counterclaims by streaming services fail, InterDigital tells US court

By Melissa Ritti ( April 30, 2025, 19:01 GMT | Insight) -- InterDigital is firing back at breach-of-contract counterclaims by Disney, ESPN, Hulu and others in the US portion of its global patent enforcement campaign. Earlier this week, it sought dismissal of claims it failed to live up to its end of the standard-essential patent bargain because the encoding claims of three of the patents the streaming services stand accused of infringing are nonessential to the H.264 and H.265 video decoding standards. InterDigital is no stranger to allegations its license offers are unreasonable and discriminatory, having settled similar claims in prior antitrust litigation brought by Lenovo and ASUS.Breach-of-contract counterclaims by streaming services accused of infringing five InterDigital patents should be dismissed, InterDigital told a California federal judge this week....

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