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

Challenged claims of Cleveland Medical Devices Inc.'s patent that describes an integrated sleep diagnosis and treatment device aren’t unpatentable as obvious over prior art, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board said, in an inter partes review by ResMed Corp. The board determined that the challenged claims aren’t obvious over various combinations of prior art, including prior art that pertains to a remote monitoring method for monitoring the condition of a patient using a positive pressure artificial respiration assisting device remotely, that relates to remote monitoring of device over a wide area network and to network-based transmission of data from a ...