By Adam Lidgett (August 24, 2022, 8:26 PM EDT) — The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has invalidated various claims in a patent on charging a mobile device by way of a USB connector, finding that they were too obvious to warrant patent protection
A three-judge panel of the PTAB on Tuesday said a company called TCT Mobile was able to show that four of the challenged claims at issue in the patent — owned by another company called Fundamental Innovation Systems International LLC — were not patentable.
The panel said the four claims challenged in the inter partes review were obvious in light of an unexamined Japanese patent application, referred to as…
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