Case: Patents/Anticipation & Obviousness (P.T.A.B.)

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board said that challenged claims of Entropic Communications LLC’s patent that describes wideband receiver systems that are capable of receiving multiple desired television channels that extend over multiple non-contiguous portions of the broad frequency spectrum and grouping them into a contiguous frequency spectrum are unpatentable as anticipated by and obvious over prior art, in an inter partes review by Comcast Cable Communications LLC. The board determined that the challenged claims are anticipated by and obvious over various combinations of prior art, including prior art that describes demodulator circuits in broadband communications, and that describes interactive ...