Adaptive Streaming Inc. v. Netflix, Inc., No. 20-1310 (Fed. Cir. Dec. 14, 2020)

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Adaptive Streaming, Inc., owns U.S. Patent No. 7,047,305, which claims systems that can receive a video signal in one format and broadcast it to at least one device calling for a different format. Adaptive sued Netflix, Inc., in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, alleging that Netflix infringed the ’ 305 pa- tent. The district court held that the asserted claims of the ’305 patent are invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101. Adaptive Streaming Inc. v . Netflix, Inc. , No. SA CV 19-1450-DOC (KESx), 2019 WL 7841923 (C.D. Cal.