Challenged claims of Smith Interface Technologies LLC’s patent that describes a mobile device having a touch screen, among other components, 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 said that the claims aren’t obvious over prior art that relates to activating hyperlinks on a portable electronic device; that relates to navigating, displaying, extracting, sharing and/or storing links, text and/or media using gesture-based or similar interfaces to the Internet; and that describes a touch-sensitive device and method of control.
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