Choate Obtains Federal Circuit Affirmation of PTAB Decision

Choate and Anita Spieth are noted in Law360’s article, “Individual Inventors Face Rough Day At Federal Circuit,” regarding a three-judge panel’s non-precedential opinion in Shamoon v. Resideo Technologies Inc. The Federal Circuit upheld the PTAB's decision to invalidate an inventor’s patent claims related to wireless communications.

The PTAB found all but one claim raised in Resideo Technologies, Inc. and Central Security Group – Nationwide, Inc. v. Ubiquitous Connectivity, LP (IPR 2019-01335 | Patent 8,064,935 B2) invalid as obvious. The individual inventor then took the PTAB’s decision before the Federal Circuit panel, which included U.S. Circuit Judges Pauline Newman, Jimmie V. Reyna and Tiffany P. Cunningham.  The Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB invalidity decision, and agreed with appellees Resideo Technologies Inc. and Choate’s client Central Security Group-Nationwide Inc. 

Choate’s team consisted of Anita, John Calhoun, Peter Flynn, Jillian Gately, Marina Pullerits, Stephanie Schonewald, and Sophie Wang representing Central Security Group-Nationwide Inc. (a.k.a. Alert360), before the PTAB and the Federal Circuit.