LG’s Patent Tribunal Appeal Sunk by Old Error in Previous Patent

A typographical error in a previous invention, regardless of how long it takes to discover the mistake, renders it unusable to show that a later patent is invalid, a split Federal Circuit ruled Monday.

LG Electronics Inc. didn’t provide enough evidence that ImmerVision Inc.'s patent related to panoramic image capturing would’ve been obvious to an industry expert based on previous inventions, given one of the older patents LG cited had a copy-and-paste error, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found in a precedential opinion upholding an administrative patent tribunal’s decision. The inaccuracy in the patent’s table would’ve ...