Rome – A US federal court has invalidated a patent under which the holder had started expose several Internet companies for the use of advertising within online videos . At the heart of the dispute there was a patent stars and stripes 7,346,545, through which Ultramercial claimed for itself a “method and system for the payment of royalties for intellectual property through a message promotion of a telecommunications network” behind the legalese of the claims the patent troll lurked just a system through which allow the viewing of material protected by copyright payment alternative consists of the vision of a particular type of advertising .
The patent, which may guilty had spent the discriminating news though probably similar systems were already employed before 2000 (the date referred to in the store), and the surprisingly inventive step having employees not granted US Patent Office considered the idea to anticipate online video advertising, seemed to represent a typical example of the abuses of the negative interpretation of inventions related to software.
The process to see the cancellation was, on the other hand, long and troubled: the matter has been raised platform streaming Hulu and WildTangent they did get the case to court resisting the pressures threatening to Ultramercial, with the latter claiming the payment of royalties in exchange for the possibility of using advertising before videos stream. From there the matter has escalated to the Supreme Court whose judges – first – they realized that there was actually something wrong in the patent: why have referred the matter to federal court, where they asked to re-evaluate question.
This – now – has decided that the patent is invalid: as already established in cases such as Alice v. Bank, not just associate automation, computerized system business practices to make them patentable.Claudio Tamburrino
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