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

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board said that some challenged claims of Smart Mobile Technologies LLC’s patent that describes a wireless communication and control system including a universal wireless device and a server are unpatentable as obvious over prior art, in an inter partes review by Apple Inc. The board said that the challenged claims are obvious over prior art that describes an integrated office communication system employing a local area network for intraoffice communications and a public cellular radio network for outside communications, that describes a resource manager in a client/server computer network which controls the availability of system ...