Media Content Transportation Patent Survives Alice Challenge

Hulu, LLC; Netflix, Inc.; Spotify USA Inc.; and Vimeo, LLC petitioned for Covered Business Method review of U.S. Patent No. 7,269,854 (“the ‘854 patent”), titled “Transaction System for Transporting Media Files from Content Provider Sources to Home Entertainment Devices.” Hulu, LLC v. iMTX Strategic, LLC, CBM2015-00147, at *2 (November 30, 2015). The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) held the ‘854 patent’s claims are not directed to a non-patent-eligible judicial exception, and denied review regarding the patent subject-matter eligibility of the ‘854 patent’s claims.

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