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

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board determined that challenged claims of SitNet LLC’s patent that discloses methods and systems for creating a projection of a situational network are unpatentable as obvious over prior art, in an inter partes review by Meta Platforms Inc. The board determined that the challenged claims are obvious over prior art that relates to emergency notification systems for mobile telephone users within a disaster region, and to an intelligent crisis headcount system which is operable to account for all persons associated with a site during a crisis event in real time. And the board denied SitNet’s ...