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 p

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.