The Federal Circuit dismissed in part and affirmed in part decisions of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that challenged claims of patents relating to computer recovery screens for lost/stolen devices are unpatentable, in inter partes reviews by Google LLC and Microsoft Corporation. The court dismissed the challenge to the board’s institution decision as unreviewable, affirmed the board’s claim construction of the “without assistance” limitation, and upheld the board’s finding of no nexus for secondary considerations of non-obviousness.
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