December 22, 2020
A California federal judge said in a hearing Tuesday that some of the patents Broadcom accuses Netflix of infringing appear "really, mainly aspirational" and questioned whether some of the chipmaker's patents were attempts at "buying the internet" by claiming ownership of widespread and abstract computing techniques.
June 10, 2020
Netflix is urging a California federal judge to toss some infringement claims from Broadcom's suit alleging the streaming giant built its success partly on the back of the chipmaker's technology, saying the patents in question are abstract ideas.
March 16, 2020
A new Broadcom lawsuit blamed Netflix for cable watchers ditching their TV service for online streaming platforms and alleges the streaming giant built its success partly on the back of the chipmaker's technology, which it says tanked sales of its semiconductor chips for cable set-top boxes.