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Maxell, Ltd. v. Fandango Media, LLC

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, No. 2019-1088 · judgment October 8, 2019

Certiorari denied · March 23, 2020
Pre-decision estimate: 2% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

Maxell, Ltd., is a leading manufacturer of digital media. It owns patents that disclose solutions for managing access to audio/video content sent over networks, such as videos provided through online rental and streaming services. The patents describe two time controls and a series of rules to restrict access to audio/visual files that are sent with the files, in order to limit access to the files even when the user is offline. The question presented is: Whether the claims at issue in Maxell’s patents are patent-eligible under 35 U.S.C. 101, as interpreted in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International, 573 U.S. 208 (2014).

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Nicole A. Saharsky
Mayer Brown LLP

For respondent
Steven Lieberman
Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Mar 23 2020
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Feb 26 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/20/2020.
  3. Feb 24 2020
    Reply of petitioner Maxell, Ltd. filed.
  4. Feb 07 2020
    Brief of respondent Fandango Media, LLC in opposition filed.
  5. Jan 06 2020
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 7, 2020)