The Patent Trial and Appeal Board on Friday agreed to review Hulu’s challenge to a data management patent that is subject to prior challenges by the streaming service and others, despite arguments by the patent owner that this was a classic example of a serial petition. The board, in a 2-1 decision, instituted inter partes review after finding Hulu LLC was likely to succeed on its argument that several claims in Sound View Innovations LLC's patent were invalid. Read the full article. (Subscription required)
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