Executive Summary
VIZIO challenges Multimedia Technologies' patent via an IPR petition, asserting multiple grounds of obviousness (103). The challenger combines several prior art references—including Melnychenko and Chen—to argue that the claimed metadata management features are predictable to a POSITA.
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