Staton Techiya Loses Appeals of Nixed Patents in Samsung Fight

A US appeals court upheld a patent tribunal’s cancellations of claims from three Staton Techiya LLC patents covering “always-on” recording and personalized-hearing device technology.

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in opinions issued Thursday, agreed with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s decisions in four inter partes reviews that US Patent Nos. 8,111,839, 9,124,982, and 9,609,424—owned through Staton Techiya subsidiary ST Case1Tech LLC—were unpatentable. The court found the patents obvious in view of speech-to-text and signal-processing systems cited in challenges by Samsung Electronics Co.

Samsung last November settled its related dispute with Staton Techiya ...