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

Challenged claims of Proxense LLC’s patent that relates to 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 determined that the challenged claims are obvious over prior art that discloses controlling access to secured services based on the proximity of a wireless token to a computing device, a low-power wireless data communication system in which base stations can automatically interface with battery-powered portable data modules ...