Case: Patents/Obviousness (P.T.A.B.)

Challenged claims of NEC Corporation’s patent that relates generally to a content distribution system that transmits content data encoded with a certain code rate to a reception device that stores the received data and reproduces the content aren’t unpatentable as obvious over prior art, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board said, in an inter partes review Peloton Interaction Inc. The board determined that the challenged claims aren’t obvious over prior art that describes a system for controlling the coding bit rate of streaming media data, relates to receiver buffer fullness management of the multimedia streaming client, and relates to simultaneous ...