TrackTime v. Amazon.com Services (Fed. Cir., July 2, 2026) 2024-1102
This episode concerns an opinion from the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit regarding a patent infringement dispute between TrackTime, LLC and Amazon. The court addressed two specific patents involving mobile device software designed to navigate and annotate multimedia files using synchronized transcripts. For the '978 patent, the appellate court vacated a previous ruling of invalidity, determining that the lower court must re-evaluate whether certain software limitations should be classified as "means-plus-function" terms under modern legal precedents. Regarding the '638…
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