TikTok Fends Off Digital Media Personalization Patent on Appeal

March 31, 2026, 3:26 PM UTC

TikTok Inc. kept its win over a patent owner that accused the company of taking its idea for personalizing social media content.

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said a California judge was right in finding 10Tales Inc’s US Patent No. 8,856,030 ineligible for protection as it covers an abstract concept that described personalizing digital media content without enough specificity.

The disputed portion of the patent was “written to claim ‘only a result’ as opposed to a ‘way of achieving it,’” wrote Judge Jimmie V. Reyna in a Tuesday opinion, quoting a 2018 Federal Circuit ruling ...

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