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In First Suit, ANZU Targets Social Media “Virtual Video Clipping”

May 28, 2023

ART Research and Technology, L.L.C. (d/b/a ANZU) has filed suit against Meta Platforms (f/k/a Facebook) (Instagram) (3:23-cv-02562) over the provision of the Facebook Reels, Instagram Reels, Facebook Clips and Facebook Gaming services. Features for allowing users to create “short-form video formats” complete with music, audio, augmented reality effects, and videos” are targeted with two patents described in the Northern District of California complaint as related to “annotating playable media files and systems for managing and sharing annotations between members of a social network”. The inventor-controlled plaintiff has filed its required certificate of interested parties, indicating that “there is no such interest to report”.


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