A technology that Quibi has been touting ahead of its April launch that will allow users to watch content on the short-form site in either portrait or landscape mode is at the center of a legal fig…
Quibi on Monday filed a 15-page complaint in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles calling for a declaration that it did not infringe Eko’s technology, and demands Eko withdraw a notice of complaint of infringement it filed last week to Apple’s app store, as well as deny any request for injunctive relief. The Jeffrey Katzenberg-led mobile video site also seeks legal fees and “any other relief the court deems just ahead of what Quibi’s lawyers call “Quibi’s highly anticipated launch.
alleged that Quibi has infringed upon its patent and stole trade secrets, and said in a statement that Quibi’s declaratory judgment motion is “nothing more than a PR stunt” after it learned a story about Eko’s claims were being published today in aEko said it filed for a patent for its horizontal-to-vertical video technology in 2015, and that Quibi did not file for a patent covering the same technology until May 2019, which Eko said came after “a confidential demo by Eko of the technology to...
So far, Eko has not filed a lawsuit, and Quibi said it filed its suit today “to enjoin them from improperly tarnishing Quibi’s brand.”
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