The Patent Trial and Appeal Board determined that some challenged claims of Smith Interface Technologies LLC’s patent that describes electronic devices with touch-sensitive surfaces are unpatentable as obvious over prior art, in an inter partes review by Apple Inc. The board determined that some of the challenged claims are obvious over prior art that discloses a computing device with improved user interface for applications, a multi-functional hand-held device, and a mobile terminal and method of controlling operation of the mobile terminal.
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