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Roku says Dolby, SPT overstated risk of harm in securing relief at UPC

By Melissa Ritti ( March 13, 2025, 14:43 GMT | Insight) -- An amended complaint filed by Roku in Massachusetts federal court accuses the owners of patents declared essential to the High Efficiency Video Coding standard and Access Advance, administrator of the HEVC Advance patent pool, of participating in an “opportunistic shakedown” of HEVC implementers. Among the more noteworthy allegations are that Dolby and Sun Patent Trust “overstated the urgency and need” for anti-antisuit injunctive relief from the Unified Patent Court and that SPT initiated infringement proceedings, there, without ever engaging with the California-based streaming device maker on its request for a bilateral license.Roku has filed an amended complaint in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts which reserves its prior request for ex parte relief barring Dolby and SPT from enforcing injunctions entered against it at the Unified Patent Court....

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