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

Challenged claims of Theta IP LLC’s patent directed to processes, methods and circuits for improving battery life by reducing the battery power-drain of battery-powered devices using wireless transceivers are unpatentable as obvious over prior art, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board said, in an inter partes review by Apple Inc. The board determined that the challenged claims are obvious over prior art that describes a receiver that implements adaptive dynamic range in the IF section, the 2.4-GHz front-end and the first down conversion section of a fully integrated low-IF receiver, and a broad-band bandpass filter designed as a channel-select filter ...