Challenged claims of Maxell Ltd.'s patent that relates to a recording and reproducing apparatus and a recording and reproducing method are unpatentable as obvious over prior art, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board said, 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 relates to an electronic camera and an image processing device provided with human face recognition functions, that relates to a device that may process images using various filters which may relate to ...
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