On March 3, 2019, the Federal Circuit reversed the PTAB's IPR decision that held the challenged claims as obvious. Personal Web Tech., LLC v. Apple, Inc., No. 2018-1599 (Fed. Cir. March 8, 2019). Apple filed an IPR petition against US7,802,310 asserting multiple grounds of unpatentability. Board issued a final written decision concluding that Apple had demonstrated by a preponderance of evidence that the challenged claims were obvious in view of prior art references. The '310 patent is directed to a system that uses content-based identifiers for various purposes in data processing systems.
Full text of the opinion is available here.
Full text of the opinion is available here.
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