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

Challenged claims of Cleveland Medical Devices Inc.'s patent that describes a data acquisition system for EEG and other physiological conditions and methods of using such system aren’t unpatentable as obvious over prior art, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board said, in an inter partes review by ResMed Corp. The board determined that the challenged claims aren’t obvious over various combinations of prior art, including prior art that relates to treating breathing-type sleep disorders, that relates to the field of physiologically monitoring and bio interactive applications, and that relates to remote monitoring of device over a wide area network and to ...