Voxer had accused the Menlo Park, Calif., social media giant of taking its proprietary streaming technologies and incorporating them into Facebook Live and Instagram Live after a potential collaboration fell through. Voxer launched the Voxer Walkie Talkie app in 2011, and Facebook soon approached the company about a potential collaboration, court documents stated. The social media giant then revoked Voxer’s access “to key components of the Facebook platform,” according to court documents. The jury found that both Facebook Live, launched in 2015, and Instagram Live, launched in 2016, “incorporate Voxer’s technologies” and infringed two Voxer patents. “Facebook has prioritized live video messaging since the launch of Facebook Live and Instagram Live, with one report identifying Facebook Live as Facebook‘s ‘top priority,’ ” according to the documents.

Source: Los Angeles Times September 22, 2022 14:39 UTC