A rare Inter Partes patent reexamination just emerged from the PTO, cancelling all 5 claims. Patent 6,614,729 issued to Griner, et. al., for a SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CREATING DIGITAL RECORDINGS OF LIVE PERFORMANCES, is no more. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) was the Third Party Requestor.
Claim 1 is
[1. An event recording system, comprising:
(i) an event-capture module to capture an event signal and transform it into a primary event file that is accessible as it is being formed;
(ii) an editing module communicatively connected to the event capture module, wherein the editing module accesses and parses the primary event file into one or more digital track files that can be recorded onto a recording media; and
(iii) a media recording module communicatively linked to the editing module for receiving the one or more digital track files, the media recording module having a plurality of media recorders for simultaneously recording the one or more digital track files onto a plurality of recording media.]
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