Johnson Controls Loses Appeal of Video-Surveillance Case Ruling

A Delaware federal judge was correct to rule that five patents owned by Johnson Controls’ Sensormatic Electronics unit and related to cloud-based video-surveillance products shouldn’t have been issued because they’re too abstract, a U.S. appeals court ruled.

• “Although Sensormatic faults the district court for failing to assess claimed elements as an ordered combination, Sensormatic fails to explain how any combination of elements provides an inventive concept,” a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit wrote in an opinion issued Wednesday in Washington
• NOTE: Johnson Controls Loses Patent Ruling in Video-Surveillance Case
• Sensormatic filed lawsuit ...