Case: Patents/Obviousness (P.T.A.B.)

Challenged claims of Proxense LLC’s patent that provides a hybrid device including a personal digital key and a receiver-decoder circuit that are coupled for communication with each other are unpatentable as obvious over prior art, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board said, in an inter partes review by Apple Inc. The board said that the challenged claims are obvious over various combinations of prior art, including prior art that discloses a wireless media system for the automatic establishment of wireless connectivity with other electronic devices using an integrated Radio Frequency Identification, a two-level authentication for secure transactions, and a RF-ID ...