Cooperative Entertainment, Inc. v. Kollective Technology, Inc.

I. BACKGROUND

20 Plaintiff CEI is a North Carolina corporation with its principal place of business in 21 Raleigh, North Carolina. Dkt. No. 18 ¶ 1. Defendant Kollective is a Delaware corporation with 22 its principal place of business in Bend, Oregon. Id. ¶ 2. 23 CEI is the owner of the ’452 patent, entitled “Systems and Methods for Dynamic 24 Networked Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution.” Id. ¶ 8, Ex. B. The ’452 patent relates to “[p]eer- 25 to-peer (P2P) dynamic networks and/or sub-networks for file distribution between peers receiving 26 the same content, wherein nodes are outside controlled networks and/or content distribution 27 networks (CDNs), and wherein large data files are distributed or shared across and among the peer nodes.” ’452 patent at Abstract. In particular, the ’452 patent concerns sharing the same content across peers in the P2P network outside the confines of a CDN. Id. at 3:40-64; see also id. at 5:4- 10 (“Preferably, the systems and methods of the present invention provide for dynamic P2P networks distributing digital content in real-time or near-real-time to a multiplicity of peer nodes within the network, wherein the peer…