Vizio Suit Over Optical Illusion Patents Revived on Appeal

VDPP LLC convinced the Federal Circuit a lower court improperly invalidated parts of three optical illusion patents the company alleges are infringed by Vizio Inc. televisions.

Judge James Selna in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California ruled the disputed claims in VDPP LLC’s U.S. Patent Nos. 9,699,444, 9,948,922, and 10,021,380 are invalid because they are indefinite.

That decision was reversed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which found the decision was based on an erroneous application of the law. The case was sent back to the district court for additional ...