Judge Orrick in the Northern District of California recently granted a motion for summary judgment of invalidity for patent-ineligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. ' 101. The court found that the claims recited the abstract idea of creating and transmitting video at two different resolutions and adjusting the video's setting remotely.
Contour IP Holdings, LLC v. GoPro, Inc., No. 3:17-cv-4738-WHO (N.D. Cal.).
Plaintiff Contour IP Holdings, LLC sued GoPro for infringing U.S. Patent Nos. 8,890,954 and 8,896,694. The patents are directed to point-of-view digital video cameras. A representative claim recites such a camera'generally comprising four elements: a lens; an image sensor configured to capture light propagating through the lens and produce video image data; a wireless connection protocol device configured to send image content to a portable computing device; and a camera processor configured to receive the video image data from the sensor'generates first and second image streams, receives control signals from the computing...
