TikTok has fought back in court against a patent lawsuit by rival video-sharing app Triller.
San Francisco, United States:
TikTok and its parent company ByteDance fought back in court against a patent lawsuit brought by rival video-sharing app Triller, in an attempt to avoid infringement claims.
The lawsuit in California federal court seeks to overturn a July lawsuit in Texas federal court alleging that the Chinese-owned app infringed Triller’s software patents.
The litigation is accompanied by robust growth of both applications.
Triller claims some 65 million active users worldwide and plans to list its shares for sale.
TikTok, which has at least 100 million in the United States and is one of the fastest growing social platforms, is fighting the Trump administration’s efforts to ban the app because of its links with China or put it in American hands.
The TikTok lawsuit filed Wednesday aims to move the case from Texas to California, where Triller is based. The company is asking the court to rule that its application does not infringe Triller’s patents.
“A judicial declaration is necessary to resolve the real, immediate and justiciable controversy concerning these matters and to determine the respective rights of the parties with respect to the … patent,” TikTok lawyers wrote in the complaint.
Triller’s earlier lawsuit alleges that TikTok erroneously used a patented system to synchronize video clips with an audio track.
