Patent Owner: BMW Petition For Review ‘Weak On The Merits’

(August 22, 2023, 9:51 AM EDT) -- ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A request by BMW of North America LLC for inter partes review (IPR) of a patent directed to an object vector indicator (OVI) should be denied, the patent owner told the Patent Trial and Appeal Board on Aug. 21, both because the petition is unlikely to succeed and because the automaker has already filed suit in Texas federal court seeking a declaration of noninfringement....