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

Challenged claims of K.Mizra LLC’s patent that describes contagion isolation and inoculation in a protected computer network aren’t unpatentable as obvious over prior art, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board said, in an inter partes review brought by Cisco Systems Inc., Forescout Technologies Inc., and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. According to the board, the claims aren‘t obvious over prior art that describes a system for controlling access to a network when a device attempts to connect to the network based on the security posture of the device, that describes methods and apparatuses to authenticate base and subscriber stations and maintaining ...