⚖ Oral Arguments, with Context

The Federal Circuit hears V L Collective’s appeal in a patent dispute with Netflix. The patent concerns keeping different media files, such as video and audio, synchronized. After the patent was asserted against Netflix, both Netflix and a separate organization called Unified Patents challenged it at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Unified’s case knocked out several patent claims, but two survived that challenge. In Netflix’s case, the Board later found all of the challenged claims unpatentable, including those two. V L Collective will contend that Netflix’s relationship with Unified should bind it to the earlier proceeding and bar Netflix’s challenge to claims already reviewed; Netflix will defend the Board’s decision to let its case proceed. The court will also examine whether the Board correctly matched the patent’s requirements to an older media-synchronization system.

VL Collective IP, LLC v. Netflix, Inc. (No. 25-1525) — U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, argued November 9, 2026.