Apple Seeks Review Of Quality Control Patent Before Patent Board

(July 26, 2016, 11:45 AM EDT) -- ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A claimed method of measuring and reporting the quality of communications between a mobile device and a base station was well known to people of ordinary skill in the art before it was patented, Apple Inc. alleges in a July 22 petition for inter partes review (IPR) by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (Apple Inc. v. Cellular Communications Equipment LLC, No. IPR2016-01480, PTAB)....