Federal Circuit Affirms Obviousness In Processing Patent IPR Sought By Netflix

( July 31, 2025, 2:17 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel agreed that Netflix Inc. successfully showed that multiple claims of a patent describing a distributed processing system were invalid as obvious during an inter partes review (IPR) proceeding, affirming the findings of the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)....