Uber Gets Win in Appeal of GPS Location-Sharing Patent Case

Uber Technologies Inc. won a reversal at the Federal Circuit of a Patent Trial and Appeal Board ruling that a patent asserted against it was valid.

The PTAB was wrong to find parts of the GPS-tracking patent valid because it used an “imprecise” interpretation, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said Tuesday.

Uber challenged the validity of two X One Inc. patents at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board after X One sued for infringement in California federal court. X One’s U.S. Patent Nos. 8,798,647 and 8,798,593 relate to using a GPS to track users, sharing that ...