Brazilian Court Order Favors InterDigital in Video Patent Dispute With TCL
Key Facts
InterDigital announced that a court order had been issued in its favor in Brazil in its dispute with TCL over patents related to video coding, following a lawsuit the company filed against the device maker in February 2026. In its second-quarter filing, the company said it had brought the case before the Regional Commercial Court in Rio de Janeiro, accusing TCL of infringing patents related to video-coding technologies. InterDigital sought damages and an injunction to prevent the alleged infringement from continuing. However, the scope of the recently issued order and the conduct it covers could not be verified from an open court document or original statement. It therefore cannot be confirmed that the decision bars the manufacture, import or sale of devices in Brazil.
The case is part of a broader campaign InterDigital announced in February 2026 against TCL and Hisense over what it described as alleged infringement of its intellectual property. The company said the patents at issue cover HEVC, VP9 and AV1 video-compression technologies, as well as high dynamic range (HDR) technologies. It said lawsuits against the two companies had been filed in courts in Germany, Brazil and India. The proceedings included the Munich Local Court and the Munich Regional Court in Germany, the Rio de Janeiro State Court, and the Delhi High Court. This places the Brazilian dispute within a cross-border conflict over intellectual property rights in video technologies, while the alleged infringement remains the company’s claim.
In a parallel track, InterDigital said TCL filed two lawsuits before the Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court in July 2026. According to the company’s filing, one of the lawsuits seeks a determination of global licensing terms for the HEVC patent portfolio. The second alleges abuse of a dominant position in the licensing of Chinese patents. This track reflects the dispute’s shift from challenging patent use to litigating the terms and scope of licensing. The two cases in China concern TCL’s claims, while the case in Brazil concerns InterDigital’s requests over alleged infringement, damages and an injunction. The available information did not provide an outcome in either Shenzhen lawsuit.
InterDigital’s financial results provide context for the importance of licensing revenue, which varies from quarter to quarter. The company said second-quarter 2026 revenue included $103.7 million in deferred or retroactive revenue, compared with $162.3 million in the same quarter of 2025. In its second-quarter results, the company raised its 2026 fiscal-year revenue outlook to a range of $775–845 million, from its previous range of $675–775 million. These are company figures for its business and revenue, and the available disclosures do not link them to the Brazilian lawsuit or court order. The dispute remains one of the intellectual property cases proceeding alongside the company’s licensing and litigation activity.
InterDigital shares closed at $324.26 on October 26, 2026, according to EL7 data. Verified data on the session’s opening price or high and low are not available here, and no quantitative comparison establishes a link between the share movement and the court order. As for next steps, the filing and available information did not specify a date for another hearing or a final judgment in the Brazilian case. Details of the order’s enforcement or practical scope could not be verified. The lawsuit the company filed in February, and its requests for damages and to prevent the alleged infringement from continuing, remain the basis of the announced Brazilian proceedings.