Case: Patents/Procedure (Fed. Cir.)

The Federal Circuit affirmed the decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that most challenged claims of AG 18 LLC’s patent that relates to peer-to-peer gaming systems that restrict a player’s online gaming activity based on the player’s location are unpatentable as anticipated by or obvious over prior art, and that DK failed to prove the unpatentability of one claim, in an inter partes review by DK Crown Holdings Inc. According to the court, the board didn’t abuse its discretion by finding most claims unpatentable or by declining to consider a late-raised ground not contained in DK’s petition as ...