A month before launch, Quibi is wrapped up in a legal dispute about its video technology. New York-based Eko has sent legal notices to Quibi that it has a patent on the Turnstyle tech—a feature that Quibi uses to let people watch videos seamlessly in vertical and horizontal mode. The Wall Street Journal first broke news of the dispute. As Eko sees it, it first patented the technology in...
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