GoPro Beats Infringement Suit as Camera Patents Found Abstract

GoPro Inc. beat a patent infringement suit brought by Contour IP Holding LLC, with a judge finding Contour’s portable camera patents cover subject matter that isn’t eligible for protection.

Contour alleged GoPro action cameras infringed U.S. Patent Nos. 8,890,954 and 8,896,694, related to point-of-view digital cameras.

The patents cover nothing more than the abstract idea of “creating and transmitting video” and “adjusting the video’s settings remotely,” Judge William Orrick in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled Friday.

Orrick awarded GoPro summary judgment.

The ruling closes a chapter in a legal fight that started in ...