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

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board determined that only a remanded challenged claim of Autonomous Devices LLC’s patent that describes devices, apparatuses, systems, and related methods for providing advanced learning, anticipating, decision making, automation, and/or other functionalities was unpatentable as obvious over prior art, on this final written decision on the director’s remand of an inter partes review by Tesla Inc. The board determined that the claim was obvious over prior art that describes an apparatus and methods for training and operating a robotic device to follow a trajectory, and titled “Shared Robot Knowledge Base for Use with Cloud Computing ...