Netflix is ​​appealed to patent / troll in the implementation of "download function"

ByRodrigo Vera

Online streaming service "Netflix" which gained high publicity in Japan now is a long-awaitedImplementation of download functionSeveral video service companies that provide "download function" including Netflix make a lawsuit for the purpose of obtaining reparations and license fees by making full use of patent rightsPatent · TrollIt has evolved into a situation where companies can appeal to them.

Patent troll sues Netflix over offline downloads | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/patent-troll-sues-netflix-over-offline-downloads/


This time the federal court of Delaware sued six companies, Netflix, Soundcloud, Vimeo, Starz, Mubi, Studio 3 Partners, which provides the ability to download online content to their own applications and PCs. The plaintiff is a company called Blackbird Technologies who does not have any specific company products and is a typical patent / troll company whose main business is to bring a lawsuit using the patent rights bought.

Blackbird Technologies is Sungil Lee's entrepreneurs were registered in 2000United States Patent Office No. 7, 174, 362The right to claim. This patent is said to cover "various digital data replication methods and systems", and in 2011 another Innovative Automation, another patent / troll company, claimed this patent and "Target Ticket"Or"DirecTV"It is recorded that you complained online TV viewing service like"

The patent filed by Mr. Lee in 2000 is "to download and mail the necessary data to the CD-R writing machine", and from the customer's order received through the website, the desired hope for the CD-R The lawyer of Blackbird Technologies expresses "CD-R writing machine" as "module" though it seems to have registered the idea of ​​duplicating and mailing data, but "lawyer" finally We admit its own interpretation as "It is a method of data replication implemented in a computer" that we admit.

According to Ars Technica, since Netflix was doing a DVD mailing rental service before 2000, if Lee really was conscious of services like Netflix, it was Lee who imitated the business idea It will be that. However, in the patent-troll world, that idea does not pass, and in 2017 Blackbird Technologies insisted that "Netflix imitates ideas" with the "protection of innovation" as a shield. Ars Technica has sent an email to Blackbird Technologies for comments but there is no reply and he did not have contact information for Mr. Lee.

ByMin Liu