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

Challenged claims of a patent that discloses techniques and devices to capture and create a digital photograph or image having an associated digital signature aren’t unpatentable as obvious over prior art, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board said, in an inter partes review by Adobe Inc. The board determined that the challenged claims aren’t obvious over various combinations of prior art, including prior art that describes techniques to provide secure transmission and subsequent authentication of biometric data, techniques to ensure the integrity and authenticity of the images produced by a digital camera, and a standard file format for the image ...