TITLE AND CITATION CDA Games LLC v. Potter Enterprises Inc. et al United States District Court of Appeals, First Circuit, 2015. 421 F.d 28. FACTS CDA Games LLC is a gaming studio located in San Francisco, California. CDA Games LLC developed a video game that uses an online, multi-player platform which includes audio and video functionalities so that players (alone and in groups) can watch television and listen to audio streams, in game. After development of the functionality got out the studio received a “cease and desist” letter from a lawyer of Potter Enterprises Inc. that allegedly claims to hold patents for the Internet transmission of audio and video signals within a game environment. Potter Enterprises Inc’s lawyer also represents …show more content…
Media streams have been around for years with a variety of companies implementing the technologies. In order to satisfy the publics need for information and entertainment, Internet media streams were born. The court found that a person of ordinary skill, who is also a person of ordinary creativity, can can create the streaming of audio and video in game. The prior art used was to download a digital file from a remote server and save it on a HDD locally to the end users computer or storing it digitally and playing the file back from a CD-ROM. As technology progressed media players were invented (such as Microsoft's Windows Media Player and Apple's QuickTime) to stream media. During the Internet era websites adopted Windows Media streaming formats. Which forced users to download respective applications for streaming and resulted in having multiple applications on their computers for general compatibility. Around 2002 the widespread adoption of Adobe Flash promoted the development of video streaming through Flash based players such as YouTube. The court agrees that these advances in computational technologies, combined with media streaming made practical this became affordable for ordinary