The fight over the
creator economy.
Status of post-grant proceedings (IPR2025-00472), Federal Circuit path, the two key issues at the center of this matter, and the written record investors and counsel should review.
Active post-grant proceeding.
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board is reviewing inter partes review IPR2025-00472 against U.S. Patent No. 11,416,898. The patent was granted after substantive examination, and the written record forms the foundation of the next stage.
Appeal route preserved.
The Federal Circuit is the appellate forum for PTAB outcomes from IPR2025-00472. BrodTi’s position is that the written record, claim architecture, and visual demonstrations show the foundational nature of the invention more completely than oral argument alone permitted.
Two questions decide this matter.
Predetermined number of impressions
Does the architecture described in the 898 claims cover the practice of committing advertisers to a defined impression quantity before delivery? Every modern campaign on every major platform is built on this commitment model.
Ads within content
Does the claim cover advertising integrated into the creator content experience itself — pre-roll, mid-roll, in-feed, in-stream — as opposed to legacy banner advertising adjacent to static pages?
Why the oral hearing did not fully capture the architecture.
Oral argument compresses complex technical architectures into minutes. The 898 patent describes a multi-layer monetization system — content upload, predetermined inventory, embedded delivery, real-time tracking, and revenue distribution — operating in concert.
When the architecture is reduced to isolated claim phrases, the system as a whole can be obscured. The written record, the claim chart, and the visual demonstrations restore that picture.
That is why this site exists. The architecture must be visible to the reviewers, investors, counsel, and courts who will look at this matter next.
The record speaks for the architecture.
The patent file history, the PTAB filings, the claim chart, and the demonstrations together describe the operating model behind modern creator monetization. We make them available below.
U.S. Patent No. 11,416,898 — full specification and claims.
Post-grant filings and orders.
Federal court records relating to the patent family.
Element-by-element overlap mapping for major platforms.
Litigation funding and structured opportunity overview.
Confidential brief for in-house and outside counsel.