Privacy Management Patent Invalidated as Abstract in Post Grant Review, PTAB Litigation Blog
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On October 10, 2019, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board ("PTAB") issued a Final Written Decision in favor of Avepoint, Inc. ("Avepoint") and against Onetrust, LLC ("Onetrust") in an America Invents Act post grant review ("PGR") of Onetrust’s U.S. Patent No. 9,691,090 B1 ("the ’090 patent")—a patent that involves privacy management software for calculating risk. See Avepoint, Inc. v. Onetrust, LLC, PGR2018-00056, Paper 46 (PTAB Oct. 10, 2019). The court invalidated all claims as abstract under § 101.
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