Federal Circuit Vacates PTAB Decision in Apple IPR, Finding Board’s Analysis Lacked Detail
February 17, 2017
The Federal Circuit has vacated a final decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) in an inter partes review (IPR) filed by Apple (IPR2013-00596). In a precedential opinion issued on February 14, the court ruled that the PTAB had not adequately justified its holding that certain claims from a data processing patent (7,802,310) asserted against Apple by co-owner PersonalWeb Technologies, LLC are invalid as obvious (2016-1174).
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