Challenged claims of Dental Monitoring SAS’s patent that relates to a method for evaluating the shape of an orthodontic aligner worn by a patient to evaluate how well the shape conforms to the positioning of the patient’s teeth are unpatentable as obvious over prior art, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board ruled, in an inter partes review by Align Technology Inc. The board said that the challenged claims are obvious over 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 ...
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