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

Challenged claims of Emerging Automotive LLC’s patent that relates to systems and methods for generating and sharing electronic keys with users and cloud-based processing systems are unpatentable as obvious over prior art, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board said, in an inter partes review by Kia Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp. The board determined that the challenged claims are obvious over various combinations of prior art, including prior art that discloses a vehicle computing system that includes the ability to use an integrated vehicle rental micro-business, discloses a server that generates an e-key, and titled “Mobile Device Application for Communicating ...