The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a PTAB ruling in January 2025 that invalidated the patent claims of Lynk Labs, based on U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2004/0206970. The invalidation centered on the timing of the publication; it had an earlier effective filing date than the Lynk Labs patent's priority date. The case involved interpretations of key patent statutes, mostly focused on the application of prior art in inter partes review and how publication dates affect patent validity.
In January 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a decision by the PTAB that invalidated the patent claims of Lynk Labs' U.S. Patent No. 10,687,400.
The patent at issue was invalidated based on U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2004/0206970, which was published after the Lynk Labs' priority date but had an earlier filing date.
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