Legislation360 (October 4, 2019, 6:20 PM EDT) — The Federal Circuit on Friday handed victories to Apple, Samsung and different tech giants of their problem of a patent masking LTE wi-fi expertise, unmoved by contentions that the Patent Trial and Enchantment Board failed to use its personal interpretation of a key declare.
In a nonprecedential one-line order, a three-judge panel summarily affirmed a slew of PTAB selections invalidating Advanced Wi-fi LLC’s U.S. Patent No. 7,881,236, which had been individually challenged in inter partes critiques by Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, HTC and ZTE.
On enchantment, Advanced Wi-fi instructed the Federal Circuit that the PTAB initially sided with its proposed declare interpretation…