German Court Fines Netflix €7.05 Million for Continued Infringement of Broadcom HEVC Patent
December 22 2023 - 8:00AM
Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) announced today that the District
Court in Munich, Germany fined Netflix €7.05 million for its
infringement of a Broadcom patent. This fine was for Netflix’s
continued infringement of the patent in deliberate violation of the
court’s September 14, 2023 judgment that Netflix infringes the
patent and must cease and desist all further infringement in
Germany. The European patent at issue, EP 2 575 366, covers key
features often used in HEVC/H.265 video coding, which Netflix uses
to encode and stream Ultra HD content to subscribers.
The court set the fine at €150,000, or in the alternative 15
days of imprisonment for members of Netflix’s board of directors,
for each of the 47 days that Netflix had infringed in violation of
the cease-and-desist order. Netflix may appeal the
fine, and Broadcom will seek additional penalties for Netflix’s
continuing violation of that order.
Under section 890 of the German Civil Procedure Code, penalties
for violating the cease-and-desist order include the following for
each act of infringement: (1) government fines of up to €250,000;
and/or (2) up to six months’ imprisonment for members of the
infringer’s board of directors for a total of up to two years’
imprisonment.
“This ruling once again acknowledges the importance of
Broadcom’s patented technology to successful streaming platforms
like Netflix,” said Mark Terrano, vice president and general
manager of Broadcom’s Intellectual Property and Licensing
Division. “Since 2018, Netflix and Broadcom have been
engaged in a wide-ranging patent dispute in which Broadcom has
accused Netflix of infringing numerous U.S., German, and Dutch
patents through its provision of its video streaming service.”
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