Board Petitioned For Review Of ‘Hands-Free’ Appliance Control Patent

(March 12, 2019, 1:50 PM EDT) -- ALEXANDRIA, Va. — In a March 11 petition for inter partes review (IPR), Microsoft Corp. told the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that various claims of a patented method of sound-activated and voice-operated remote control of appliances should be canceled as obvious to a person of skill in the art (POSITA) (Microsoft Corp. v. Speakware Inc., No. IPR2019-00792, PTAB)....