Negative Claim Construction Found Inadequate

SOUND VIEW INNOVATIONS, LLC v. HULU, LLC Before Prost, Mayer, and Taranto. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Summary: It was improper to find a claim limitation was missing without affirmatively construing the limitation and instead relying on its relation to a term not shown to have a sufficiently uniform meaning in the art. Sound View Innovations, LLC (“Sound View”) sued Hulu, LLC...