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Case: Patents/Obviousness (P.T.A.B.)

The PTAB determined that challenged claims of DH International Ltd.'s patent directed to a portable electronic device that exchanges data with other devices by switching between alternate data conveyance operations are unpatentable, in an inter partes review by Apple Inc Apple Inc. v. DH International Ltd., P.T.A.B., IPR 2025-00172, 4/16/26

Case: Patents/Obviousness (P.T.A.B.)

Challenged claims of Sandvik Intellectual Property AB’s patent that relates to gyratory crushers used for crushing ore, mineral, and rock material to smaller sizes aren’t unpatentable, the PTAB said, in an inter partes review by CMS Cepcor Ltd. CMS Cepcor Ltd. v. Sandvik Intellectual Property AB, P.T.A.B., IPR 2024-01381, 4/16/26

Case: Patents/Procedure (Fed. Cir.)

The court denied an inventor’s petition for a writ of mandamus related to the PTO’s handling of two patent applications, because he didn’t show a clear and indisputable right to relief and that there are no other adequate means to attain the relief. In re Sansone, 2026 BL 136062, Fed. Cir., 2026-124, nonprecedential, 4/16/26

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