Mitsubishi, Philips Move Patent-License Suit to Federal Court

Mitsubishi, Philips, and Dolby moved a Massachusetts lawsuit, accusing them of forcing HP Inc. to “pay duplicative, discriminatory, and excessive” fees for use of a group of high-efficiency, video-streaming patents, into federal court.

HP’s state-court suit accused Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Koninklijke Philips NV, and Dolby International AB of failing to meet their obligations to license their patents—essential to meet an international streaming-video standard—on fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory terms, “which constitutes a defense to patent infringement over which the federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction,” the defendants said in their Aug. 23 notice of removal in the US District Court …