The Federal Circuit affirmed an administrative tribunal’s rejection of a patent claim asserted against 20 of the US’s biggest tech companies, including
Express Mobile Inc. appealed a decision from the US Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board in a dispute over browser-based website building-technology. Express Mobile claimed the tribunal’s 2022 decision that US Patent No. 6,546,397was obvious in light of earlier patents turned on the board’s erroneous interpretation of the term “substantially contemporaneous.’’
The company merely disagreed “with certain factual findings, all of which are supported …