Video Sharing Patent Infringement Case Revived by Appeals Court

A patent infringement dispute related to video sharing technology received new life Wednesday as the Federal Circuit found that a California court had wrongly axed the patent and dismissed the case.

The US District Court for the Northern District of California incorrectly invalidated Cooperative Entertainment Inc.'s patent by finding it only covers an abstract idea, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled in a precedential opinion.

US Patent No. 9,432,452 contains concepts that Cooperative Entertainment plausibly alleged to be inventive, which “is enough to preclude dismissal,” Chief Judge Kimberly A. Moore wrote for a unanimous three-judge ...