Apple Fails to Convince Court to Invalidate Messaging Patents

Apple Inc. lost a bid at the Federal Circuit to invalidate some claims on three patents covering a process for secure messaging.

Apple failed to convince the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that some of the claims on MPH Technologies Oy’s U.S. Patent No., 9,712,494, No. 9,712,502, and 9,838,362 were obvious, the court found in a precedential opinion. The ruling affirmed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s determination upholding the validity of one of MPH’s patents.

MPH sued Apple in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California for patent infringement. Apple ...