Case: Patents/Obviousness (Fed. Cir.)

The Federal Circuit affirmed decisions of the U.S. International Trade Commission rejecting Broadcom Corp.'s complaint based on the importation of allegedly infringing patents by Renesas Electronics Corporation, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that some claims of Broadcom’s patents were obvious over prior art. The court affirmed the commission’s conclusion that Broadcom failed to satisfy the technical requirement of the domestic industry requirement. And the court agreed with the board’s finding that some claims of Broadcom’s patents directed to reducing power consumption in computer systems by gating clock signals with circuit elements to turn the signals ON and OFF ...