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

Challenged claims of WiTricity Corp.'s patent that relates to wireless energy transfer are unpatentable as obvious over prior art, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board said, in an inter partes review by InductEV Inc. The board determined that the challenged claims are obvious over various combinations of prior art that describes a wireless power system, a method for transmitting power via a resonant circuit from a non-modulated wireless magnetic field at an operating frequency and at a receive power level, and “a system . . . of wireless power transfer between a primary unit . . . and a secondary ...