Eko struck back against Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Quibi with its own lawsuit Tuesday, accusing Quibi of infringing on one of Eko’s patents and misappropriating the interactive-video company’s trade secrets.
The Eko suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California Western Division, comes a day after Quibi proactively filed its own suit seeking a judgment that its Turnstyle mobile-video technology does not infringe Eko’s patent and that Quibi did not steal trade secrets.
Quibi did not immediately provide comment on Eko’s countersuit. Quibi’s Turnstyle feature determines the orientation of a viewer’s phone (either horizontal or vertical) and presents content in the appropriate mode.
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