In Final Decision, Patent Board Rejects Google Claims Of Invalidity

(April 25, 2017, 11:31 AM EDT) -- ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Although it found in April 2016 that Google Inc. demonstrated that it would likely prevail on allegations that two claims of a vector-based traffic information patent would have been obvious to a person of skill in the art, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board on April 21 confirmed the patentability of both claims (Google Inc. v. Ji-Soo Lee, No. IPR2016-00045, PTAB)....