Implicit, LLC v. Sonos, Inc. (Fed. Cir., March 9, 2026) 2020-1173
This episode concerns a judicial opinion from the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit regarding a patent dispute between Implicit, LLC and Sonos, Inc. The court affirmed a ruling by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board which found several of Implicit’s patent claims unpatentable because they were preceded by prior art. Although Implicit attempted to bypass this prior art by correcting the listed inventors on its patents after the initial trial, the court held that the company had forfeited this new argument by failing to raise it sooner. The judges determined that the board…
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