The Federal Circuit affirmed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s decision that claims of a patent directed to the automatic filtering of electronic messages via preferences provided by users in messenger and recipient profiles are unpatentable as obvious over prior art, in an inter partes review by Unified Patents LLC. According to the court, the board’s obviousness conclusion was supported by substantial evidence.
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