Nokia sues Paramount over US video-streaming patents
By Blake Brittain
Aug 22 (Reuters) - Finnish tech company Nokia NOKIA.HE has sued Paramount Skydance PSKY.O in Delaware federal court for allegedly infringing several patents covering video streaming technology, according to a complaint made public on Friday.
Nokia said in the lawsuit that Paramount's Paramount+, Pluto TV, BET+ and other streaming services violate its patent rights in technology related to encoding and decoding streaming video. The company also filed a related complaint against Paramount in Brazil on Thursday, according to a Nokia spokesperson.
Nokia also sued Acer, Asus and Hisense this year for infringing its video streaming patents. It has settled related disputes with Amazon and HP under confidential terms.
Spokespeople for Paramount did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the complaint on Friday.
"Our preference is to avoid litigation, but Paramount left us with no choice," Nokia said in a statement on Friday.
Nokia said in the complaint that its patented technology enables the compression of raw video files for streaming. It alleged that Paramount's streaming technology infringes 13 of its patents.
According to the complaint, Nokia began negotiating a potential license with Paramount in 2022, but the companies have been unable to reach an agreement. The lawsuit requests an unspecified amount of monetary damages.
The case is Nokia Technologies Oy v. Paramount Skydance Corp, U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, No. 1:25-cv-01054.
For Nokia: Warren Lipschitz, Erik Fountain, Mitch Verboncoeur and Joshua Budwin of McKool Smith
For Paramount: Attorney information not immediately available
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