Patent Owner Tells Board To Reject Petition By Apple

Mealey's (November 26, 2019, 10:34 AM EST) -- ALEXANDRIA, Va. — In a Nov. 25 response, a Korean company tells the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that it should confirm as patentable various challenged claims of a patent that discloses an “elegant solution to the problem of incorporating new functionalities, such as fingerprint authentication, into mobile devices while maintaining simplicity” (Apple Inc. v. Firstface Co. Ltd., No. IPR2019-00614, PTAB)....