Legal Opinion
Nfc Technology, LLC v. Matal
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided September 20, 2017No. 2016-1808PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOURIE, Circuit Judge.
NFC Technology, LLC (“NFC”) appeals from the final written decision of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“the Board”) in an inter partes review (“IPR”) proceeding concluding that claims 1-3 and 5 of U.S. Patent 6,700,551 (“the ’551 patent”) are unpatentable as obvious. See HTC Corp. v. NFC Tech., LLC, IPR 2014-01198, 2016 WL 497524, at *1 (P.T.A.B. Feb. 3, 2016) {“Final Decision”). Specifically, the Board rejected NFC’s argument that it had created a prototype embodying the claimed invention before the priority date of a cited reference,…
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