Amazon Tells Board: Performer Identifying Patent Is Obvious

(August 2, 2018, 1:24 PM EDT) -- ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A patented process for providing information about a performer, such as an actor or singer, during the playing of a video in which the performer appears “discloses nothing more than well-known functions,” Amazon.com Inc. asserts in an Aug. 1 petition for inter partes review by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (Amazon.com Inc. v. CustomPlay LLC, No. IPR2018-01496, PTAB)....