Disney down, but not out, in US patent fight with InterDigital
By Inbar Preiss and Melissa Ritti ( June 2, 2025, 15:21 GMT | Comment) -- A bid by The Walt Disney Company for an antisuit injunction barring InterDigital from enforcing relief it may go on to win in Brazilian patent infringement litigation was denied in the US one day after Disney was hit with an anti-anti-suit injunction in Germany. But the news was not all bad last week for the entertainment industry titan and its streaming service co-defendants Hulu and ESPN — in the same order, US District Judge Wesley L. Hsu of the Central District of California refused to dismiss counterclaims InterDigital breached its duty to offer licenses on reasonable and nondiscriminatory, or RAND, terms. He went on to declare factual allegations by Disney that its accused products implement the H.264 Advanced Video Coding standard and the H.265 High Efficiency Video Coding standard “not baseless,” teeing up a potential battle over essentiality.A federal judge in California won’t put his thumb on the Brazilian scale of justice in a patent fight between The Walt Disney Company and InterDigital — at least not yet....
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