Category: Cisco
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PTAB invalidates final Centripetal patent tied to vacated $1.9 billion Cisco verdict
The PTAB on remand found several of the patent-at-issue’s claims obvious over a single prior art reference, ruling that even credible evidence of copying by Cisco couldn’t overcome a “strong case of obviousness” where the prior art was “essentially anticipatory”.
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NPE launches WiFi 6 patent enforcement campaign (11 suits): SEPs formerly owned by ZTE, NXP, Marvell asserted against Acer, ASUSTek, LG, HP, Lenovo
Velocity Communication Technologies, LLC, which owns a portfolio of WiFi 6 standard-essential patents formerly owned by ZTE, Marvell Technology and NXP Semiconductors, has filed 11 complaints in the Eastern District of Texas, alleging “malicious” and “deliberate” patent infringement.
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Federal Circuit revives patent case against Nokia, Cisco, Adva: assignment clause under employment contract deemed ambiguous
The majority of a Federal Circuit panel took a rather inventor-friendly position on an assignment clause in an employment agreement.