(January 9, 2019, 12:16 PM EST) -- ALEXANDRIA, Va. — In a Jan. 8 petition filed with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, Spotify USA Inc. asserts that a patent relating to the generation of a user profile based upon analysis of a playlist would have been obvious to a person of skill in the art (POSITA) (Spotify USA Inc. v. S.I. SV. EL. Societa Italiana Per Lo Sviluppo Dell’Elettronica S.p.A, No. IPR2019-00522, PTAB)....