( November 4, 2026, 8:08 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed a California federal judge’s decision to dismiss a technology company’s patent infringement complaint against Hulu LLC, agreeing with the judge that the plaintiff-appellant’s patents were directed at the abstract idea of preventing viewers from skipping advertisements through ordinary data processing without an inventive concept to make the claims patent-eligible....