Low-Bandwidth Image Retrieval Patents Are Obvious, Panel Affirms

Mealey's (May 13, 2019, 3:41 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a May 13 ruling, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld two final written decisions by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that declared technology relating to a process for retrieving largescale images in low-bandwidth conditions unpatentable as obvious (Bradium Technologies Inc. v. Andrei Iancu, as Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Nos. 2017-2579, -2580, Fed. Cir.)....