Patent Board Consolidates Apple, Samsung Petitions For Inter Partes Review

(December 23, 2016, 12:26 PM EST) -- ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Efforts by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. to invalidate a wireless communications patent raise identical issues to those raised by Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. in a joint June 2016 petition for inter partes review (IPR), the Patent Trial and Appeal Board ruled Dec. 21 (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. v. Evolved Wireless LLC, No. IPR2016-01310, PTAB)....