Early Injunction Denied in Church Live Streaming Patent Fight

BoxCast Inc., a provider of live streaming services for churches, can’t stop a rival from selling its own streaming technology to new customers while their patent fight plays out in an East Texas court, a federal judge decided.

Judge Rodney Gilstrap in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas said BoxCast hadn’t shown it would be irreparably harmed without a preliminary injunction blocking Plano, Texas-based Resi Media LLC’s sales to new or potential customers.

The case is set for trial in September.

BoxCast, which is based in Cleveland, and Resi are leaders in the church automated live-streaming ...