Wi-Fi One, LLC v. Broadcom Corp.

The patent is directed to improving the efficiency by which messages are sent from a receiver to a sender in a telecommunications system to advise the sender that errors occurred in a particular message.The patent is concerned with organizing the information contained in Status Protocol Data Units efficiently, to minimize the size of the S-PDUs, thus conserving bandwidth. The patent discloses several methods for encoding the sequence numbers of missing packets in S-PDUs. In inter partes review, the Patent Board found, and the Federal Circuit affirmed, that various claims were anticipated and that the petition for review was not time-barred. After an en banc court vacated the decision, addressing only the appealability of the Board’s time-bar determination under 35 U.S.C. 315(b), the panel reaffirmed the determinations left unaffected by the en banc court’s decision. With respect to the time-bar claim, the panel affirmed the decision of the Board. In making that determination, the Board did not apply a legally erroneous standard in deciding the “real party in interest, or privy” issue and based its decision on substantial evidence. View "Wi-Fi One, LLC v. Broadcom Corp." on Justia Law