Trend Micro Defends Patent Office Win Before Federal Circuit

Trend Micro Inc. told the Federal Circuit on Tuesday an internet security technology patent it had been accused of infringing was properly invalidated.

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board found that SecurityProfiling LLC couldn’t claim priority to its 2003 provisional patent application for related technology. Therefore, the references Trend Micro presented predated the patent and rendered it invalid as obvious, the board found.

SecurityProfiling “wants a do-over on the false premise that the board ignored its arguments” for priority, Trend Micro attorney Yar Roman Chaikovsky told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit at oral argument. Chaikovsky is ...