Challenged claims of MindbaseHG LLC’s patents directed to a new organizational protocol for creating and manipulating relational databases and database structures are unpatentable as obvious over prior art, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board said, in inter partes reviews by Google LLC. The board determined that the challenged claims are obvious over various combinations of prior art, including articles titled “Developing a Large Lexical Database for Information Retrieval, Parsing, and Text Generation Systems,” “Nouns in WordNet: A Lexical Inheritance System,” and “Guide on Logical Database Design.”
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