TikTok Tells Patent Office US Venture Dispels China Concerns

TikTok Inc. pushed the US Patent and Trademark Office to resume its challenges to several Bluetooth patents, saying the creation of an American-owned TikTok venture dispels concerns about the social media giant’s alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

Patent owner Cellspin Soft Inc.'s bid to terminate validity reviews of seven patents is based on “rank speculation” and lacks any evidence that the CCP holds influence over the challenges, TikTok said in a brief filed Monday at the PTO’s administrative patent tribunal.

Cellspin argued, in a brief filed the same day, the new venture can’t retroactively cure TikTok’s failure to ...