March 18, 2024
The head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has thrown out decisions from the Patent Trial and Trademark Board that found Assa Abloy was unable to show two biometric patents were unpatentable, saying the PTAB used a definition of a critical term that wasn't proposed by Assa Abloy or the patent owner.
December 01, 2023
No claims in a biometric security patent challenged by Swedish manufacturing company Assa Abloy AB were unpatentable as obvious, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board has ruled.