Case: Patents/Obviousness (P.T.A.B.)

Challenged claims of Healthier Choices Management Corp.'s patent that describes an electronic cigarette that includes a casing having two chambers, a battery and fluid located inside the casing, a sealing element, a tube element, and a fiber element that transfers fluid to a heating assembly, are unpatentable as obvious over prior art, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board said, in an inter partes review by R.J. Reynolds Vapor Company. The board determined that the challenged claims are obvious over prior art that describes replacing burning tobacco and paper with heated, moist, flavored air; an external air inflow structure applied to ...