Challenged claims of EscapeX IP LLC’s patent that discloses a system and method of aggregating networked social content and facilitating uncapped engagement in a networked virtual environment are unpatentable as obvious over prior art, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board said, in an inter partes review by Google LLC. The board determined that the challenged claims are obvious over various combinations of prior art, including prior art that discloses a system and method for providing place and price protection in a search result list generated by a computer network search engine, a user-initiated boosting of social networking objects, and a ...
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