Samsung’s Video Image Editing Patent Challenge Revived (1)

Samsung Electronics America Inc. will get another chance to prove that parts of a patent allegedly infringed by its “Best Face” phone camera technology are invalid, the Federal Circuit said Tuesday.

Although the Patent Trial and Appeal Board was right to find that it can’t cancel indefinite patent claims during inter partes review (IPR), it should have analyzed whether they were invalid on other grounds.

Just because a claim is found to be indefinite, “that does not foreclose the necessity of performing the anticipation and obviousness analysis” for the PTAB, said Cole Schotz PC intellectual property special counsel Marcella Bodner. ...