PARIS—Aylo Premium, a division of the parent company of Pornhub.com based in Montreal, Québec, was handed a legal victory Wednesday in an ongoing dispute over a video streaming patent registered by Dish Network, a satellite and streaming television service provider based in Englewood, Colorado.
The dispute is before the Paris Central Division of the Unified Patent Court (UPC), a patent dispute tribunal governing the European Union, reports MLex.com.
Dish lost its European patent right for adaptive-rate video streaming online in Germany as a result of a UPC lawsuit seeking the patent’s partial revocation.
The challenge was filed by Aylo, which hosts similar streaming tech on its premium platforms. The patent EP 3822805 is the intellectual property right in question, a technology to adjust video quality in real-time based on a viewer’s network and the conditions of the device they are using to stream.
This tech ensures smooth playback with little buffering, providing a good experience on both high and low-tech connections.
Dish was ordered by the court to bear the full costs of the proceedings on behalf of Aylo. Dish and Aylo are locked in another dispute before the UPC over EP 2479680, which is the other European patent protecting the baseline technology for adaptive streaming. AVN has reported on this particular dispute extensively.
