Respondent Aereo allows its subscribers to watch and record locally-broadcast television programs over the internet for a monthly fee. See WNET v. Aereo, Inc.,712 F.3d 676, 680. Aereo provides the functionality of a television, a Digital Video...
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In 1981, Lynn Goldsmith, a prominent celebrity portrait photographer, took a photograph of the musician Prince. Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith at 33. Goldsmith holds a copyright in the photo. Id. at 32. In 1984, Goldsmith...
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Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corporation (“Fourth Estate”) is an organization that creates online news articles. Fourth Estate Pub. Benefit Corp. v. Wall-Street.com at 2. Fourth Estate owns copyright in the articles it produces and licenses those...
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SEB S.A. specializes in the design and manufacture of home cooking appliances. See SEB S.A. v. Montgomery Ward & Co, Inc., 594 F.3d 1360, 1365 (Fed. Cir. 2010). SEB owns a patent for a deep fryer featuring an inexpensive, insulated plastic outer shell...
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Akamai Technologies, Inc. (“Akamai”), a content delivery network, owns a patent on a method for delivering web content. See Akamai Techs., Inc. v. Limelight Networks, Inc., 692 F.3d 1301, 1306 (Fed. Cir. 2012). The method, in short, is a system...
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Morton Mower (“Mower”) and Mieczyslaw Mirowski (“Mirowski") developed the first implantable cardioverter defibrillator (“ICD”) between 1969 and 1980. See Medtronic Inc. v. Boston Scientific Corp., 695 F.3d 1266, 1269 (Fed. Cir. 2011). An ICD is...
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Biosig Instruments, Inc. and Nautilus, Inc. have had an ongoing dispute since the late 1990s, when Nautilus’ predecessor, StairMaster Company, began selling exercise equipment that Biosig claims infringes its patented technology. See Biosig...
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LG Electronics, Inc. (LGE), a Korean company, owns patents that relate to personal computers. See LG Electronics, Inc. v. Bizcom Electronics, Inc., 453 F.3d 1364, 1368 (Fed. Cir. 2006). Some LGE patents cover components such as microprocessors and...