On December 11, 2019, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) designated three decisions as informative, resulting in a total of 13 informative decisions and 18 precedential decisions in 2019.
The three cases announced on December 11, (1) Ex Parte Linden, (2) Hulu, LLC v. Sound View Innovations, LLC, and (3) Johns Manville Corp. v. Knauf Insulation, Inc, concern claims directed to an abstract idea and insufficient obvious rationales. Read more at
