Entangled Media, LLC v. Dropbox, Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ENTANGLED MEDIA, LLC, Case No. 23-cv-03264-PCP

Plaintiff,

CLAIM CONSTRUCTION ORDER

v.

DROPBOX INC., Defendant.

This is a patent case involving cloud-based file systems. The patented invention aims to overcome shortcomings of prior art methods for data synchronization by creating a virtual representation of data across devices through metadata indexing without requiring physical data replication across those devices. Plaintiff Entangled Media claims that defendant Dropbox Inc. infringes two of its patents. Entangled Media’s asserted patents are U.S. Patent No. 8,296,338 (“the ’338 Patent”), issued on October 23, 2012, and U.S. Patent No. 8,484,260 (“the ’260 Patent”), a divisional application of the ’338 Patent, issued on July 9, 2013. Entangled Media and Dropbox dispute the construction of ten terms in these patents, which share a common specification. After considering the claims, specifications, prosecution histories, briefing, argument, and other relevant…