ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has entered a judgment of priority (first to invent) in favor of Macrovision Corporation against InterTrust Technologies Corporation in Ginter v. Benson. The patent at issue involves digital rights management technology for the video, music and software industries, as designed by Macrovision's predecessor in interest.
Macrovision's lead counsel in the interference, Charles L. Gholz of Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C., said, "This interference involved important questions of attorney diligence, and we look forward to publication of the Board's opinion. Even more importantly, we are delighted that the Board has awarded priority to our client, thereby preventing InterTrust from obtaining its claims in interference."
According to Macrovision's General Counsel, Loren Hillberg, "Macrovision has been awarded and continues to prosecute patents for this digital rights technology in Europe and Japan. Developing digital rights management technologies is significant to the future of our company, and this proceeding further confirms our ability to exploit our technology around the world."
Assisting clients for more than 35 years, Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C., in Alexandria, Va., is one of the largest intellectual property specialty firms in the United States. The firm provides a full range of intellectual property services, including litigation matters in all courts. The firm also continues to have a significant trademark, copyright and patent interference practice.
