Suit Alleges Amazon Prime Video, Fire Devices Infringe 5 DivX Patents

Amazon Prime Video, plus “various generations and screen sizes” of Amazon Fire and Echo Show devices, continue to infringe five DivX patents on adaptive bitrate streaming and digital rights management, alleged Divx in a complaint Monday (docket 3:22-cv-00687) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Virginia in Alexandria. “Without discovery, DivX cannot exhaustively identify all Amazon devices” that infringe the asserted patents, it said. Amazon provides an app store and associated infrastructure “to enable streaming service providers to provide their Amazon device-specific streaming applications to end users, so that such end users can download, install, and use such streaming applications” using the Amazon accused products, it said. Amazon didn’t comment.