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

Feb. 23, 2026, 6:03 PM UTC

Challenged claims of Intellectual Ventures II LLC’s patent that relates to methods and apparatus for remote management of these devices or systems in a secure manner are unpatentable as obvious over prior art, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board said, in an inter partes review by Lenovo (United States) Inc. The board determined that the challenged claims are obvious over various combinations of prior art, including prior art that relates to a technique for providing user profiles, to a method and apparatus for initiating strong encryption using existing SSL connection for secure key exchange, and a PCI-to-PCI bridge architecture specification. ...

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