Challenged claims of an inventor’s patent that relates to mobile storage devices including universal serial bus sticks with chip on board flash memory are unpatentable as anticipated by and obvious over prior art, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board said, in an inter partes review by Western Digital Corporation, Western Digital Technologies Inc., and SanDisk LLC. The board said that the challenged claims are anticipated by and obvious over prior art that relates to a USB connector that supports USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 protocols, and USB data storage devices using stacked flash memory. And the board denied Western Digital ...
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