Challenged claims of Smith Interface Technologies LLC’s patent that describes a method for utilizing contact pressure-based gestures 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 challenged claims aren’t obvious over prior art that discloses a method of displaying a menu in a mobile terminal by selecting a specific direction through an input device of the terminal and displaying a menu corresponding to the selected specific direction, and a device with a touch screen that may be unlocked when contact with the ...
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