Case: Patents/Obviousness (P.T.A.B.)

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board determined that challenged claims of Provisur Technologies Inc.'s patent that describes a high-speed slicing machine for slicing food articles are unpatentable as obvious over prior art, in an inter partes review by Weber Inc. The board determined that the challenged claims are obvious over two operating manuals for food slicers and a patent that describes a high-speed slicing machine for two or more food loaves.

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