Aylo Beats Dish Network in Patent Court Again

PARIS—Aylo, the parent company of Pornhub.com, beat Dish Network in a European patent court on Friday, Law360.com reports. The dispute was brought by Dish, a satellite and internet television provider based in Englewood, Colorado, which accuses Aylo of infringing upon its intellectual property related to rate-adaptive streaming. Specifically, the case surrounds patent EP 2479680, which protects Dish's baseline technology for online adaptive streaming. At the Court of First Instance for the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in Mannheim, Germany, the panel of judges in the local chamber found very few similarities in Aylo's streaming tech versus Dish. Aylo's technology "does not make literal use of the teaching of the patent-in-suit," the UPC determined, noting that this applies to all of Aylo's streaming platforms. This ruling comes days after the Paris Central Division of the UPC granted Aylo a win by invalidating a similar streaming patent owned by Dish within the jurisdiction of Germany. Aylo, owned by Ethical Capital Partners, and Dish Network, which is owned by satellite communications giant EchoStar, have been locked in protracted litigation over the patents about streaming technology and adaptive rate adjustment for years.