The Amazon owned video game streaming platform Twitch is facing a new legal battle, this time a lawsuit filed by RazSog Holdings that claims that the platform’s home page and tag system infringes on their patents.
Per the filing documents, RazDog claims that they created the software in the late 2000’s and after winning a Microsoft sponsored competition they were then able to file for and receive the patents for the “carousel for interactive media” and says that that Twitch’s inclusion of a carousel to organize live streams on the top of the home page is infringing on its decade-old patent.
The company explains that it infringes because it works without the end user downloading a plugin. “These services and features, as well as other implementations of the Twitch Video
System that include carousels and a remote tool box, infringe the RazDog Patents (the “Twitch Infringing Services”).
Additionally, the filings say that Twitch’s tag and suggested channels systems are infringing on a separate “remote toolbox” patent that RazDog Holdings owns, and the company is asking for a trial by jury in the case as an “amount sufficient to compensate RazDog for Twitch’s infringement.”
Stay tuned for more information about this case as the information become publicly available.
