Inventor-Backed Piranha Trains “Intersplicing” Patents on Hulu’s Streaming Service
January 20, 2024
Piranha Media Distribution, LLC (f/k/a Piranha Media Distribution, Inc.) has filed its first litigation, suing Disney (Hulu) (2:24-cv-00498) in the Central District of California. The plaintiff asserts two patents generally related to providing advertisements within a “digital media system”. Hulu is accused of infringement through the provision of its ad-supported streaming service, with features for providing advertisements based on “DASH interoperability guidelines and the MPEG-DASH streaming standard” at issue.
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