The Patent Trial and Appeal Board said that challenged claims of Nariste Networks Pty. Ltd.'s patent that relates to power conservation for GPS-enabled devices are unpatentable as obvious over prior art, in an inter partes review by Google LLC, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., and Samsung Electronics America Inc. According to the board, the challenged claims are obvious over prior art that describes combining GPS technology and cellular technology to provide position information to a mobile terminal, and that teaches a mobile device that can determine its position either from signals received from wireless cellular base stations or GPS signals received ...
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