Google LLC v. Koninklijke Philips N.V.

 
APPEAL NO.
19-1234
OP. BELOW
SUBJECT
Patent
AUTHOR
Taranto

Question(s) Presented

“Can a ‘general’ obvious-to-try theory predicated on the idea that a user ‘might’ benefit from a reference’s modification (which is not the theory argued below) be adopted on appeal without deference to the Board’s finding that the primary reference dissuades the proposed modification, such that a ‘general’ obvious-to-try assertion trumps all other non-obvious considerations?”

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