Withrow Networks, Inc. v. Google, LLC
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 WITHROW NETWORKS, INC., Case No. 5:24-cv-03203-PCP
8 Plaintiff,
ORDER DENYING MOTION TO
9 v. DISMISS
10 GOOGLE, LLC, et al., Re: Dkt. No. 35 Defendants. 11
12 Plaintiff Withrow Networks, Inc. alleges that defendants Google, LLC and YouTube, LLC 13 infringe its patent, which relates to multimedia streaming. Defendants move to dismiss the 14 complaint, contending that the claims of the asserted patent are not patent eligible under 35 U.S.C. 15 § 101. For the following reasons, the Court denies the motion to dismiss. 16 BACKGROUND 17 Withrow owns U.S. Patent No. 10,771,849 (“the ’849 patent”). The underlying patent 18 application was filed in 2005, and the patent, titled “Multimedia System for Mobile Client 19 Platforms, was issued on September 8, 2020. The patent’s claims generally relate to the 20 transmission and playback of segmented multimedia on mobile devices over wireless networks. 21 Claim 1 of the ’849 patent recites: 22 …