Withrow Networks, Inc. v. Google, LLC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 WITHROW NETWORKS, INC., Case No. 5:24-cv-03203-PCP

Plaintiff,

ORDER DENYING MOTION TO

v. DISMISS

GOOGLE, LLC, et al., Re: Dkt. No. 35 Defendants.

Plaintiff Withrow Networks, Inc. alleges that defendants Google, LLC and YouTube, LLC infringe its patent, which relates to multimedia streaming. Defendants move to dismiss the complaint, contending that the claims of the asserted patent are not patent eligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101. For the following reasons, the Court denies the motion to dismiss. BACKGROUND Withrow owns U.S. Patent No. 10,771,849 (“the ’849 patent”). The underlying patent application was filed in 2005, and the patent, titled “Multimedia System for Mobile Client Platforms, was issued on September 8, 2020. The patent’s claims generally relate to the transmission and playback of segmented multimedia on mobile devices over wireless networks. Claim 1 of the ’849 patent recites: 22 …