Netflix, Inc. v. OpenTV, Inc.

7 Cited authorities

  1. OpenTV, Inc. v. Netflix, Inc.

    Civil Action No. 12-1733 (GMS) (D. Del. Mar. 31, 2014)   Cited 1 times

    Civil Action No. 12-1733 (GMS) 03-31-2014 OPENTV, INC., Plaintiff, v. NETFLIX, INC., Defendant. MEMORANDUM I. INTRODUCTION On December 19, 2012, the plaintiff OpenTV, Inc. ("OpenTV") filed suit against the defendant Netflix, Inc. ("Netflix"). (D.I. 1.) In its complaint, OpenTV alleged that Netflix infringed U.S. Patent Nos. 6,018,786, 6,233,736, 7,055,169, 7,409,437, 7,490,346, 7,949,722, and 8,107,786 (collectively, "the Patents-in-Suit"). (Id. at ¶¶ 12, 14.) The Patents-in-Suit relate to technologies

  2. Section 112 - Specification

    35 U.S.C. § 112   Cited 7,423 times   1070 Legal Analyses
    Requiring patent applications to include a "specification" that provides, among other information, a written description of the invention and of the manner and process of making and using it
  3. Section 103 - Conditions for patentability; non-obvious subject matter

    35 U.S.C. § 103   Cited 6,174 times   493 Legal Analyses
    Holding the party seeking invalidity must prove "the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains."
  4. Section 314 - Institution of inter partes review

    35 U.S.C. § 314   Cited 381 times   636 Legal Analyses
    Directing our attention to the Director's decision whether to institute inter partes review "under this chapter" rather than "under this section"
  5. Section 312 - Petitions

    35 U.S.C. § 312   Cited 131 times   122 Legal Analyses
    Governing inter partes reexamination
  6. Section 42.100 - Procedure; pendency

    37 C.F.R. § 42.100   Cited 192 times   75 Legal Analyses
    Providing that the PTAB gives " claim . . . its broadest reasonable construction in light of the specification of the patent in which it appears"
  7. Section 42.108 - Institution of inter partes review

    37 C.F.R. § 42.108   Cited 46 times   69 Legal Analyses
    Permitting partial institution