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

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board held that challenged claims of Ouraring Inc.'s patent that discloses a wearable computing device that can be in the form of a ring that can be worn on the finger of a human or animal user aren’t unpatentable as obvious over prior art, in an inter partes review by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Samsung Electronics America Inc. The board determined that the challenged claims aren’t obvious over various combinations of prior art, including prior art that discloses a physical activity monitoring method and system, a wearable electrical apparatus of an input system, and ...