10Tales, Inc. v. TikTok, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN JOSE DIVISION 7 10TALES, INC., Case No. 21-cv-03868-VKD
Plaintiff,
ORDER CONSTRUING CLAIM
v. TERMS OF U.S. PATENT NO. 8,856,030
TIKTOK INC., et al., Defendants.
13 Plaintiff 10Tales, Inc. (“10Tales”) sued defendants TikTok, Inc., TikTok Pte. Ltd., ByteDance Ltd. and ByteDance, Inc. (collectively “TikTok”), alleging infringement of claim 1 of U.S. Patent No. 8,856,030 (“the ’030 patent”), titled “Method, System and Software for Associating Attributes within Digital Media Presentations.” Upon consent of the parties, this action was reassigned to this Court for all purposes, including trial. 28 U.S.C. § 636; Fed. R. Civ. P. 72; Dkt. Nos. 174, 175. The parties have fully briefed their disputes over the construction of terms in claim 1. Dkt. Nos. 167, 177, 182, 185. At the Court’s request, the parties also submitted a complete electronic copy of the prosecution history for the ’030 patent. The…