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

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board determined that challenged claims of Proxicom Wireless Inc.'s patent concerned with facilitating the exchange of information and transactions between two entities associated with two wireless devices when the devices are in close proximity to each other are unpatentable as anticipated by or obvious over prior art, in an inter partes review by Target Corp. The board said that the challenged claims are anticipated by or obvious over various combinations of a patent publication that discloses communication devices that identify nearby like devices and send a notification to a remote server, and a prior patent ...