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

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board said that challenged claims of Ouraring Inc.'s patent that relates to a wearable computing device in the shape of a ring aren’t unpatentable as obvious over prior art, in an inter partes review by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Samsung Electronics America Inc. The board found that the challenged claims aren’t obvious over prior art that discloses a portable biometric monitoring device having a physical size and shape adapted to couple to the user’s body, a physical activity monitoring method and system, and an external secure unit comprising a memory, a processor, and an ...