Media Rights Techs, Inc. v. Capital One Fin. Corp., No. 14-1218 (Fed. Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CaseMedia Rights sued Capital One, alleging infringement of its patent, entitled “Method of Controlling Recording of Media.” The patent prevents unauthorized recording via a compliance mechanism, which diverts incoming media content protected by law or agreement from being output from a system in order to stop the illegal copying or sharing of that content. The district court found that all claims were invalid for indefiniteness. The Federal Circuit affirmed, upholding a determination that the term “compliance mechanism,” which is a limitation in every single claim, is a means-plus-function term that lacks sufficient structure.
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