InterDigital, Inc. (NASDAQ:IDCC), a wireless, video and AI technology research and development company, today announced it has been awarded another injunction against Disney by a court in Europe.
The Mannheim Local Division of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) ruled that InterDigital is entitled to an injunction over Disney's infringement of an InterDigital patent covering certain video encoding techniques related to HEVC and confirmed the validity of this patent. The UPC is a pan-European patent court which issues decisions that apply across multiple countries in the European Union (EU); here, the injunction against Disney spans 11 EU countries. Disney can appeal the decision.
The judgment from the Mannheim court is the first injunction InterDigital has received from the UPC against Disney. Other injunctions have been issued by courts in Germany and Brazil for Disney's infringement of InterDigital's intellectual property related to high dynamic range (HDR) technology, the dynamic overlaying of multiple video streams, and additional compression technologies related to HEVC and AVC.