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

Challenged claims of Motive Drilling Technologies Inc.'s patent for a system and method for defining a drilling path based on cost are unpatentable as obvious over prior art, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board held, in an inter partes review by Nabors Drilling Technologies USA Inc. The court said that the challenged claims are obvious over various combinations of prior art, including prior art that relates to wellbore operations and more specifically to a method and system for altering a wellbore trajectory while drilling, and that relates generally to oil and gas production and more particularly to integrating well trajectory ...