The Federal Circuit has recognized that “the specification may reveal a special definition given to a claim term by the patentee that differs from the meaning it would otherwise possess,” and “[i]n such cases, the inventor’s lexicography governs.” Phillips, 415 F.3d at 1316 (citing CCS Fitness, Inc. v. Brunswick Corp., 288 F.3d 1359, 1366 (Fed. Cir. 2002).
Patent Owner’s declarant, Mr. Michael Adams, provides similar assessment, but also testifies that such an artisan, alternatively, would have had “at least five years of work experience and training in the design and development of distributed network systems and/or multimedia streaming.” Ex. 2012 ¶ 28.
The Federal Circuit has repeatedly held that “[a] reference must be considered for everything it teaches by way of technology and is not limited to the particular invention it is describing and attempting to protect.” EWP Corp. v. Reliance Universal Inc., 755 F.2d 898 (Fed. Cir. 1985); In re Applied Materials, Inc., 692 F.3d 1289, 1298 (Fed. Cir. 2012); see also Merck & Co., Inc. v. Biocraft Labs.
We agree with and credit Dr. Houh’s testimony, and we find that such an artisan of ordinary skill would have understood that, in Eyal in combination with Wiser, the voucher ID provided in the play-list is uniquely associated with the client device and a viewing session of the media.
Dr. Houh testifies that a relevant artisan would have been motivated to modify Madison’s play-list redirector file to provide a voucher ID, as taught by Wiser, because “utilizing reservations for streaming media was already well-known and desirable to address finite memory and bandwidth for the delivery server.” Ex. 1003 ¶¶ 106, 188−189.