Oracle Tells Patent Board Bit-Level Permutations Were Well Known

Mealey's (November 12, 2020, 11:36 AM EST) -- ALEXANDRIA, Va. — In a Nov. 6 petition for inter partes review (IPR), Oracle Corp. and Oracle America Inc. (Oracle, collectively) tell the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that it should cancel 10 claims of a patent relating to the “idea of doing arbitrary permutations (i.e., rearrangements) of individual bits in a register” (Oracle Corporation, et al. v. Teleputers LLC, No. IPR2021-00078, PTAB)....