Mealey's (January 9, 2020, 11:47 AM EST) -- ALEXANDRIA, Va. — In a Jan. 7 petitioner reply to a patent owner response, a voting system company maintains that inter partes review (IPR) of a patented ballot-marking device is warranted because the claimed technology would be obvious to a person of skill in the art (Smartmatic USA Corp. v. Election Systems & Software LLC, No. IPR2019-00531, PTAB)....