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

Challenged claims of BoardActive Corporation’s patent that relates to an online platform for managing geolocation and time-based advertising and methods for managing and/or delivering location and time-based advertisements are unpatentable as anticipated by and obvious over prior art, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board held, in an inter partes review by Foursquare Labs Inc. The board determined that the challenged claims are anticipated by and obvious over prior art, including prior art that relates to delivering content to a mobile device based on the direction of mobility of the device, to displaying marketing content at a predetermined location and at ...