MediaTube turns on counsel, denied appeal amendment

telecom | 07/03/2018 4:31 pm EDT

The Federal Court of Appeal has turned away an attempt by MediaTube Corp. — in its already-dismissed patent infringement case against BCE Inc. — to introduce potential new evidence in its appeal based on allegations its lawyers were engaged in a conflict of interest. The $350-million suit stretches back to 2013, when MediaTube and NorthVu Inc. jointly filed the case against Bell’s Fibe TV. The two alleged Bell’s IPTV service is using certain patents it owns without a license. The Federal Court tossed the case out in January last year, but the two filed an appeal — with NorthVu...

NorthVu drops Bell IPTV patent case

Media | 05/31/2017 5:05 pm EDT

NorthVu Inc. has abandoned an appeal it filed with MediaTube Corp. in a dispute with BCE Inc. NorthVu filed a notice of discontinuance on May 23 in an appeal the two parties launched in February, against a January Federal Court decision that found Bell did not infringe a patent belonging to the two companies. NorthVu and MediaTube had claimed Bell and its Bell Aliant division used their patent, which allows TV signals to be more efficiently managed by sending only those signals the user selects, in its Fibe TV IPTV offering. The appeal filed by MediaTube continues....