Info-Hold, Inc. v. Muzak LLC, No. 14-1167 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 24, 2015)

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This case comes before us on appeal of numerous ru l- ings unfavorable to Info -Hold, Inc. (“Info -Hold”), owner of U.S. Patent No. 5,991,374 (the “’374 patent”), the sole patent in the dispute. Info -Hold asserted the ’374 patent against Muzak LLC (“Muzak”) and Applied Media Tech- nologies Corporation (“AMTC”) in separate lawsuits before the same judge in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. Those suits led to separate appeals, which were argued on the same day before the same panel.