{"id":74481,"date":"2009-12-10T06:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091209\/0253027262.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-10T06:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T11:26:00","slug":"blockbuster-netflix-found-not-to-have-infringed-on-patent-for-notifying-you-of-the-status-of-your-rental-queue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/74481","title":{"rendered":"Blockbuster, Netflix Found Not To Have Infringed On Patent For Notifying You Of The Status Of Your Rental Queue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/story\/09\/12\/08\/1335236\/DVD-by-Mail-Services-Cleared-In-Patent-Troll-Case?from=rss&#038;utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+(Slashdot)\" >Slashdot<\/a> points us to the news that a lawsuit against Netflix and Blockbuster for patent infringement <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homemediamagazine.com\/legal-news\/blockbuster-netflix-win-patent-litigation-17788\" >has been dismissed by a California court<\/a>.  At issue was a patent, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/patents\/about?id=toCqAAAAEBAJ&#038;dq=7389243\" >7,389,243<\/a>, that is for a method for alerting users to the status of their rental queue.  Read through the claims and look at the drawings and try to figure out how such a patent was possibly approved.  It&#8217;s patents like this one that make people question what patent examiners actually do.  So it&#8217;s nice to see the patent holder sent packing, though you have to wonder if GameFly, who had previously <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law360.com\/registrations\/user_registration?article_id=92725&#038;concurrency_check=false\" >settled a lawsuit<\/a> over the same patent is now regretting that decision.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091209\/0253027262.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091209\/0253027262.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20091209\/0253027262&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=da96725f4428a08b04bf2fb0e7b127d8&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=da96725f4428a08b04bf2fb0e7b127d8&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=yfwSg3TTNRM:Q_cooWqptI4:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=yfwSg3TTNRM:Q_cooWqptI4:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=yfwSg3TTNRM:Q_cooWqptI4:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/yfwSg3TTNRM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slashdot points us to the news that a lawsuit against Netflix and Blockbuster for patent infringement has been dismissed by a California court. At issue was a patent, 7,389,243, that is for a method for alerting users to the status of their rental queue. Read through the claims and look at the drawings and try [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}