Pixar Handed Pixel Patent Win at Federal Circuit

2017/03/21

Pixar has been handed a win in a patent infringement lawsuit heard by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. On March 15, the court affirmed a district court judgment that found a patent asserted against Pixar and technology company Nvidia Corporation was invalid. Louis Coffelt, the owner of US patent number 8,614,710, sued the companies at the US District Court for the Central District of California. The patent is directed to “a method for deriving a pixel colour in a graphic image”.

Source: WIPR