Federal Circuit Affirms Netflix Win On Streaming Patent It Challenged

( August 12, 2026, 2:10 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed a U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) finding that all claims of a video streaming patent challenged by Netflix Inc. were unpatentable as they were obvious in view of a prior art patent; the panel saw no error in the board’s construction of the phrase “a response to the content status” in the challenged claims....