By Melissa Ritti ( April 17, 2025, 20:24 GMT | Insight) -- In a trio of decisions today, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit left intact findings by the US Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board that a Xerox-patented mobile notification method would have been obvious to a person of skill in the art, despite disagreeing with the board’s construction of “context graph.” The nonprecedential rulings in favor of social media giants Meta Platforms, X Corp. and Snap were delivered just one day after the Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB’s cancellation of a different Xerox patent via Rule 36 judgment, and one week after oral argument.Meta Platforms, X Corp. and Snap have prevailed a second time in their challenge to a Xerox patent which recites, among other features, a method of notifying users of a change in their environment....
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