Netflix sues Broadcom's VMware over US virtual machine patents

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Not sure if anyone could shine a light on what is at play here.

Out of all the companies that could sue Broadcom's VMware for "VM" related patents, Netflix is probably at the very bottom of the list.

So there has to be some additional context here. I did some simply search and nothing useful came up.

The context in the article:

"Broadcom and Netflix have been embroiled in a separate patent dispute since 2018 over Netflix's alleged infringement of Broadcom patents related to video streaming technology, with cases in California, Germany and the Netherlands."

"Palo Alto, California-based Broadcom acquired VMware for $69 billion last year. Netflix's lawsuit said that VMware's vSphere virtualization platform for deploying and managing virtual machines infringes the streaming giant's patents related to virtual-machine communications."

Broadcom has an active patent lawsuit against Netflix. Netflix's defense is using a counter assertion strategy now that Broadcom owns VMWare.

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