St. John Courtenay
33 IP cases indexed. Covers patent matters.
Cases Presided Over
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CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. v.UMBRA TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. successfully challenged seven claims of UMBRA TECHNOLOGIES LTD.'s patent under 35 U.S.C. § 103 (obviousness). The Board preliminarily found that the claimed invention was obvious over the prior art reference Agarwala and general knowledge of a Person Having Ordinary Skill in the Art (POSITA).
CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. v.UMBRA TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
The Board issued a Final Written Decision finding all seven challenged claims unpatentable based on obviousness over the prior art reference Agarwala. The decision adopted Petitioner's construction that 'data beacons' was merely an intended use, and found that Agarwala disclosed every structural limitation of the claims through a combination of disclosures.
Cisco Systems, Inc. v.Portsmouth Network Corporation
The PTAB issued a Final Written Decision finding that claims 1-18 of the patent were unpatentable on grounds of obviousness over Kovvali and Kalman. The Board rejected the Petitioner's arguments, agreeing with the Patent Owner that there was no valid motivation to combine the references for resource allocation in ring topology data flow.
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