Virgin Media Wins U.K. Ruling in Rovi, Gemstar Patent Appeal
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Virgin Media Inc. won a U.K. appeal ruling affirming it didn’t infringe European patents for interactive program guides held by Rovi Corp.’s Gemstar-TV Guide International because the patents were deemed invalid.
The ruling today by a three-judge panel in the Court of Appeal in London upholds a lower court decision from 2009 that two of Gemstar’s three patents in the case, which relate to television channel-guide systems, weren’t innovative enough to be valid. Gemstar didn’t appeal over the third invalid patent.