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

Challenged claims of General Access Solutions Ltd.'s patent that pertains to a manner to provide mobile communications in a fixed wireless access communication system aren’t unpatentable as anticipated by or obvious over prior art, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board said, in an inter partes review by Cellco Partnership. The board determined that the challenged claims aren‘t anticipated by or obvious over various combinations of prior art, including prior art that pertains to a method for determining when a wireless communication device should rate shift or roam in order to improve communication performance, and that pertains to equipment through which ...