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

Challenged claims of CPC Patent Technologies Pty Ltd.'s patent that discloses card device security using biometrics aren’t unpatentable as obvious over prior art, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board held, in an inter partes review by ASSA ABLOY AB, ASSA ABLOY Inc., ASSA ABLOY Residential Group Inc., August Home Inc., HID Global Corporation, and ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions Inc. The board held that the challenged claims aren’t obvious over various combinations of prior art, including prior art that relates to credit card transactions without using a PIN with automated cashier machines, and that describes a system and related method for ...