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Patents for Video Streaming: Huawei Sues RTL – What the UPC Dispute About Licensing Battles Reveals

Summary by Legal Patent
On 15 April 2026, the Chinese technology group Huawei filed an action against the RTL Group before the Mannheim Local Chamber of Appeals (Unified Patent Court, UPC). The subject matter of the case is the European patent EP2493191, which concerns a central technique of MPEG‐DASH streaming. The case is exemplary for how standard-essential patents (SEPs) in the field of video streaming become strategic means of printing in licensing negotiations – …
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On 15 April 2026, the Chinese technology group Huawei filed an action against the RTL Group before the Mannheim Local Chamber of Appeals (Unified Patent Court, UPC). The subject matter of the case is the European patent EP2493191, which concerns a central technique of MPEG‐DASH streaming. The case is exemplary for how standard-essential patents (SEPs) in the field of video streaming become strategic means of printing in licensing negotiations – …

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Legal Patent broke the news on Wednesday, May 13, 2026.
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