Board Denies Inter Partes Review Of Metadata Generation Patent

Mealey's (July 29, 2019, 1:58 PM EDT) -- ALEXANDRIA, Va. — In a July 27 decision, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board rejected a request by Spotify USA Inc. for inter partes review (IPR) of a patented method of automatically generating metadata for a collection of content items (Spotify USA Inc. v. S.I. SV. EL. Societa Italiana Per Lo Sviluppo Dell’Elettronica S.p.A, No. IPR2019-00519, PTAB)....