Some challenged claims of International Business Machines Corp.'s patent that relates to customizing graphical user interface portal pages are unpatentable as obvious over prior art, according to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, in an inter partes review by Ebates Performance Marketing Inc. The board determined that some challenged claims are obvious over various combinations of prior art, including prior art that specifies high-level libraries and services for designing applications for use in a Grid environment, designed to enable Grid application development by supporting higher level libraries and services and the deployment of a Grid testbed encompassing resources from ten ...
