{"id":2202,"date":"2018-09-10T13:39:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T17:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=2202"},"modified":"2018-09-17T10:07:53","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T14:07:53","slug":"expert-testimony-critical-to-determining-meaning-of-prior-art-to-a-phosita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=2202","title":{"rendered":"Expert Testimony Critical to Determining Meaning of Prior Art to a PHOSITA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafc.uscourts.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/opinions-orders\/17-1665.Opinion.9-10-2018.pdf\">IXI IP, LLC v. Samsung Electronics Co.. Ltd.<\/a>, [2017-1665] (September 10, 2018), the Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB&#8217;s determination that the challenged claims of\u00a0U.S. Patent\u00a0No. 7,039,033 were unpatentable.\u00a0\u00a0The \u2019033 patent is directed to a system that accesses\u00a0information from a wide area network (WAN), such as\u00a0the Internet, and local wireless devices in response to\u00a0short-range radio signals.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Circuit noted that\u00a0issues relating to a\u00a0motivation to combine prior art references and a reasonable\u00a0expectation of success are both questions of fact, reviewed for substantial evidence.\u00a0 Substantial evidence is \u201csuch relevant evidence as a<br \/>\nreasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a\u00a0conclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The single issue on appeal is\u00a0whether a PHOSITA would read the prior art as implicitly<br \/>\ndescribing an implementation in which the JINI LUS,\u00a0which identifies services provided on the network, is\u00a0located on the gateway device, i.e., the cellphone.\u00a0\u00a0Samsung acknowledged that the reference does not expressly\u00a0state that the JINI LUS is located on a mobile\u00a0phone, but nonetheless,\u00a0contended, and the Board agreed, that a PHOSITA\u00a0would read the reference to understand that JINI LUS may\u00a0be located on the cellphone.<\/p>\n<p>After examining the evidence, the Federal Circuit\u00a0held that the Board\u2019s determination<br \/>\nthat a POSITA reading the reference would understand that\u00a0the cellphone is the master of the ad-hoc network and\u00a0contains the LUS is reasonable and was supported by substantial\u00a0evidence.\u00a0 The determination of how a PHOSITA would understand the references was based on the weighing expert testimony from both\u00a0parties, with Samsung&#8217;s expert being credited by the Board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In IXI IP, LLC v. Samsung Electronics Co.. Ltd., [2017-1665] (September 10, 2018), the Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB&#8217;s determination that the challenged claims of\u00a0U.S. Patent\u00a0No. 7,039,033 were unpatentable.\u00a0\u00a0The \u2019033 patent is directed to a system that accesses\u00a0information from a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=2202\">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":[23,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experts","category-ipr"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202","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=2202"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2222,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions\/2222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}