MEDIA RIGHTS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. v. MICROSOFT CORP.

No. 17-16509.

922 F.3d 1014 (2019)

MEDIA RIGHTS TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MICROSOFT CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed May 2, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ian N. Feinberg (argued), Elizabeth Day , Marc Belloli , and David Alberti , Feinberg Day Alberti & Thompson LLP, Menlo Park, California, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Jonathan J. Lamberson (argued) and Alana C. Mannigé , Fish & Richardson P.C., Redwood City, California, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before: Ronald M. Gould and Marsha S. Berzon, Circuit Judges, and Frederic Block, District Judge.


OPINION

This case requires that we apply longstanding principles of claim preclusion to a contemporary set of facts. Plaintiff-Appellant Media Rights Technologies, Inc. ("MRT") developed a technology in the early 2000s to protect electronic files, such as music files, from content piracy. MRT claims that Defendant...

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