The Patent Trial and Appeal Board determined that challenged claims of Fendgo LLC’s patent that integrates a self-defense device with a mobile phone/device to protect against violent crime are unpatentable as obvious over prior art, in an inter partes review by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Samsung Electronics America Inc. The board determined that the challenged claims are obvious over various combinations of prior art, including prior art that discloses a mobile communications handheld device to assist police and security services in obtaining evidence linking criminals to their crimes, titled “Panic Button IP Device,” and titled “Apparatus for Processing Emergency ...
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