Final Settlement Elusive in Legal Battle Between HDMI Licensing, InfoComm

HDMI Licensing and producers of the InfoComm show “agreed on broad terms” of a settlement in their ongoing legal dispute and “exchanged drafts of a settlement agreement,” but a final resolution in the case remains elusive, their lawyers told the U.S. District Court in Las Vegas. Judge Jennifer Dorsey granted them a final stay in the case through March 19 “to attempt to finalize settlement,” her order said. HDMI Licensing sued InfoComm in mid-September, alleging the InfoComm show in mid-June gave “safe haven” to exhibitors that are “direct infringers” of HDMI trademarks by letting them market, promote and sell unlicensed HDMI products on the show floor, shielded from investigators (see 1409150044). InfoComm countersued a month later accusing HDMI Licensing of “blatant extortion” because it treated any company on the InfoComm show floor that used the "HDMI" acronym "as a common criminal” (see 1410170054).