Technology company Adeia has filed a lawsuit against The Walt Disney Company and its various entities — including Hulu and ESPN — for allegedly violating its patent rights in video streaming technology.
The 167-page legal complaint, obtained by TheWrap, was filed Thursday in Delaware federal court and accuses Hulu, ESPN+ and Disney+ of breaching six of Adeia’s patents that cover several streaming functionality improvements, as well as episode tracking methods, cloud data storage, key frame detection and synchronization, among other processes.
“We always prefer to reach a mutually agreeable resolution without litigation as we have done with the vast majority of our customers, however we were left with no choice but to defend our intellectual property from Disney’s unauthorized use,” Adeia CEO Paul Davis said in a Thursday statement.