Federal Circuit Upholds Patent Board In Win For Google, Microsoft

Mealey's (February 3, 2020, 12:17 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A patent owner’s effort to overturn a Patent Trial and Appeal Board determination of invalidity was unsuccessful Jan. 30, when the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals instead agreed that the claimed method for emulating video streaming over a network is obvious (Koninklijke Philips N.V. v. Google LLC, et al., No. 19-1177, Fed. Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 2911)....