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

December 22, 2025, 9:29 PM UTC

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board said that challenged claims of 138 East LCD Advancements Limited’s patent directed to an image retrieving device for classifying and retrieving a digital image, a method for adding keywords in the image retrieving device, and a computer program therefor are unpatentable as anticipated by and obvious over prior art, in an inter partes review by Google LLC. The board held that the challenged claims are anticipated by and obvious over prior art directed to a method of generating captions or semantic labels for an acquired image, and to a person identifier and management system ...

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