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

Challenged claims of Theta IP LLC’s patent directed to methods and circuits for reducing power dissipation in wireless transceivers and other electronic circuits and systems aren’t unpatentable as obvious over prior art, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board said, in an inter partes review by Apple Inc. The board held that the challenged claims aren’t obvious over prior art directed to methods and circuits for reducing power dissipation in wireless transceivers and other electronic circuits and systems, directed to methods and circuits for reducing power dissipation in wireless transceivers and other electronic circuits and systems, and that describes a broad-band ...