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Panel swats down challenge to Apple’s PTAB standing on forfeiture grounds

By Melissa Ritti ( March 4, 2025, 20:51 GMT | Insight) -- Gesture Technology Partners LLC forfeited the right to question Apple’s standing, as a member of Unified Patents, to maintain inter partes review proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board amidst a concurrent Unified Patents-led challenge to the same patent, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held today. The panel upheld the PTAB's final written decision without reaching the far thornier question of whether participation in the international organization rendered Apple a "real party in interest or privy" of Unified Patents.The Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s determination that some claims of a Gesture Technology Partners patent are obvious while others are nonobvious will stand....

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