The Patent Trial and Appeal Board determined that challenged claims of Dental Monitoring SAS’s patent that describes a method for assessing the shape of an orthodontic aligner are unpatentable as obvious over prior art, in an inter partes review by Align Technology Inc. The board said the challenged claims are obvious over prior art, including prior art directed to a method and system for providing remote teeth alignment services to remotely advise an appropriate step of a clear aligner using a smartphone of an orthodontic patient, intended to help the Invisalign practitioner successfully monitor Invisalign treatments and address issues that ...
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