Patent Board Sides With Patent Owner In Final Written Decision

Mealey's (February 13, 2018, 1:37 PM EST) -- ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Allegations by myriad petitioners that a wireless communication patent is unpatentable under Section 103 of the Patent Act, 35 U.S.C. §103, were rejected Feb. 12 by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, which cited an absence of evidence that a person of skill in the art would have had a motivation to combine two prior art references (Apple Inc., et al., v. Cellular Communications Equipment LLC, No. IPR2016-01493, PTAB)....