{"id":1865,"date":"2017-12-18T13:26:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T18:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1865"},"modified":"2017-12-20T21:19:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T02:19:03","slug":"federal-circuit-affirms-board-on-claim-construction-no-anticipation-and-nonobviousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1865","title":{"rendered":"Federal Circuit Affirms Board on Claim Construction, No Anticipation, and Nonobviousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafc.uscourts.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/opinions-orders\/16-1880.Opinion.12-14-2017.1.PDF\">HTC Corp. v.\u00a0Cellular Communications Equipment, LLC<\/a> [2016-1880] (December 18, 2017), the Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB&#8217;s Final Written Decision, finding no error in the Board&#8217;s claim construction, and that substantial evidence supported the Board&#8217;s determination that the challenged claims were not invalid.<\/p>\n<p>The IPR involved U.S. Patent No. 7,941,174, which is directed to<br \/>\nmethods and apparatuses for a radio communications\u00a0system where a subscriber station, i.e., a mobile device, is\u00a0assigned a plurality of codes for transmitting messages.<\/p>\n<p>The Board did not\u00a0expressly construe the term \u201cmessage,\u201d nor did HTC did not seek construction of the term.\u00a0 However, the Federal Circuit found that\u00a0Board findings establishing the scope of the patented\u00a0subject matter may fall within the ambit of claim\u00a0construction, reviewable on appeal.\u00a0 However the Federal Circuit found HTC&#8217;s arguments unpersuasive and inconsistent.<\/p>\n<p>On the asserted anticipation grounds, the Federal Circuit found that substantial evidence supported the Board&#8217;s conclusion, and rejected arguments presented by HTC for the first time on appeal.\u00a0 On the asserted obviousness grounds,\u00a0the Federal Circuit agreed with the Board\u2019s reading of the prior art, and found that HTC did not\u00a0point to any evidence in the record that would undermine\u00a0the Board\u2019s findings on the scope and content of the prior art.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In HTC Corp. v.\u00a0Cellular Communications Equipment, LLC [2016-1880] (December 18, 2017), the Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB&#8217;s Final Written Decision, finding no error in the Board&#8217;s claim construction, and that substantial evidence supported the Board&#8217;s determination that the challenged claims &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1865\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,26,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anticipation","category-inter-partes-review","category-obviousness"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1865"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1872,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions\/1872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}