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OpenTV files patent infringement suit against Apple over streaming video tech

Apple is facing a lawsuit from OpenTV, a company that creates interactive television technology, over five patents the latter claims the Cupertino company violated in the iTunes software. The protected technology in question relates to how Apple streams movies from its servers to end users.

The suit claims this technology was legally licensed to other companies, including Microsoft and Google, but not Apple. OpenTV was named as a party in a separate lawsuit against Apple earlier this year. That suit dealt with video playback technology in iOS and OS X and other products, including iTunes and iAds.

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  1. WaveMedia (@WaveMedia) - 9 years ago

    Is this the same company that made Apple have to rethink about open sourcing it’s HTTP based streaming tech? Kind of how some company claimed ownership of some patents that would have otherwise allowed them to open source the FaceTime API’s.