In its Final Written Decision, the Board found that Petitioner established by a preponderance of the evidence that the challenged claims of the ’503 patent are unpatentable. The ’503 patent “is directed to a microfluidic device for analyzing and/or sorting biological materials. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: May 2016
Final Written Decision Finding Claims Unpatentable and Real Party in Interest Satisfied IPR2015-00059
In its Final Written Decision, the Board found that Petitioner established by a preponderance of the evidence that the challenged claims of the ‘781 patent are unpatentable as anticipated by Divsalar and rejected Patent Owner’s argument that the Petition failed to name all real parties-in-interest. The ‘781 patent “describes the serial concatenation of interleaved convolutional codes forming turbo-like codes.” Continue reading
Decision Partially Granting Institution Based on References Considered During Prosecution IPR2016-00055
In its Decision, the Board instituted inter partes review of claims 1-24 and 29 of the ‘717 patent, where Petitioner had sought review of claims 1-30. The ‘717 patent is generally directed to a “programmable communicator device.” Continue reading