Xerox, Others Slam Scanner ‘Patent Troll’ IP In PTAB Review
Law360, Washington (May 27, 2015, 2:45 PM ET) -- Lexmark Corp., Ricoh Americas Corp. and Xerox Corp. blasted a nonpracticing entity for offering a "nonsensical" defense of two document-scanning patents during a Patent Trial and Appeals Board hearing Wednesday, maintaining the claimed inventions just combine decades-old prior art.
The decision in Wednesday’s case should build on a PTAB decision last year that invalidated another MPHJ Technology Investments LLC scanning patent, according to Xerox. Xerox said MPHJ, designated a “patent troll” by Vermont’s Attorney General, has not offered enough evidence to distinguish the instant claims from... read more here