Case: Patents/Obviousness (Fed. Cir.)

The Federal Circuit affirmed the decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that some challenged claims of Gesture Technology Partners LLC’s patent that relates to simple input devices for computers intended for use with 3-D graphically intensive activities, and operating by optically sensing a human input to a display screen or other object and/or the sensing of human positions or orientations, are unpatentable as obvious over prior art, in an inter partes review by Apple Inc., LG Electronics Inc., LG Electronics USA Inc., and Google LLC. The court said that substantial evidence supports the board’s findings that some claims ...