InterDigital sues Amazon over video-compression patents

InterDigital

10/11/2025 16:55

By Blake Brittain

Nov 10 (Reuters) - Research and development company InterDigital IDCC.O has sued Amazon AMZN.O in Delaware federal court for allegedly violating its patent rights in digital video technology, according to a lawsuit made public on Monday.

InterDigital said in the complaint that it was suing Amazon after it was sued by the tech giant in the UK and Brazil amid negotiations over a potential license to InterDigital's technology.

InterDigital, which owns and licenses thousands of patents related to digital video, wireless communications and other technologies, said in a press release on Monday that it has also filed related lawsuits against Amazon in Brazil and Germany.

"Our preference is always to sign licenses through amicable negotiation, but Amazon’s decision to initiate litigation against InterDigital earlier this year shows that Amazon is more interested in litigating than negotiating,” InterDigital chief legal officer Josh Schmidt said in a statement.

Amazon said in a statement that it had sued earlier this year to "establish fair licensing rates for InterDigital's video codec patents."

The lawsuit said that Amazon's Prime and Fire TV streaming services misuse InterDigital's technology for enabling high dynamic-range video and improving streaming efficiency. Wilmington, Delaware-based InterDigital accused Amazon of infringing five of its U.S. patents.

InterDigital requested an unspecified amount of monetary damages and a court order blocking Amazon from infringing its patents.

The case is InterDigital Inc v. Amazon.com Services LLC,  U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, No. 1:25-cv-01365.

For InterDigital: Richard Kamprath, Joshua Budwin and Kevin Burgess of McKool Smith

For Amazon: attorney information not immediately available

(Reporting by Blake Brittain in Washington)