Obviousness does not Require Prior Art to Fit Together Exactly
Patent – Patently-O 2016-09-26
Summary:
ClassCo v. Apple (Fed. Cir. 2016) In response to being sued for patent infringement, Apple filed for inter partes reexamination of ClassCo’s Patent No. 6,970,695. That litigation (originally filed in 2011) has been stayed pending the resolution here. Although the patent had survived a prior reexamination, this time the Examiner rejected the majority of the patent claims as obvious; […]