Case: Patents/Obviousness (Fed. Cir.)

The Federal Circuit vacated and remanded the decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that a claim of Wildseed Mobile LLC’s patent that relates to generating and sending a hot link to a device isn’t unpatentable as obvious over prior art, in an inter partes view by Google LLC. According to the court, the board erred by failing to address Google’s arguments raised under the instant messaging limitation of a patent claim.