USA: Lyda v. CBS Corporation, United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit, No. 2015-1923, 30 September 2016
A district court did not err in dismissing an inventor’s claim that CBS Corporation, its CBS Interactive subsidiary, and “others under the control or direction of an independent contractor” hired by CBS to produce the television show “Big Brother” infringed two patents relating to methods and systems for obtaining real time responses from a broadcast…