The Patent Trial and Appeal Board said that challenged claims of Spin Master Inc.'s patent that relates to soft-projectile launching devices, such as projectile toys, aren’t unpatentable as obvious over prior art, in an inter partes review by Prime Time Toys LLC, Prime Time Toys Ltd., and Easebon Services Ltd. The board found that that challenged claims aren’t obvious over a reproduction of webpages from the thinkgeek.com website as archived by the Internet Archive, or over prior art that discloses an electric airsoft gun used for military simulations or training.
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