CORE WIRELESS LICENSING v. APPLE INC., decided August 16, 2018, infringement and interpretation

U.S. Patent Nos. 6,477,151 and 6,633,536 are directed to synchronization between a mobile phone and base station and a mobile receive that can detect unexpected control messages (page 2).  The 151 patent recites receiving “a timing advance value once” (pages 5-6).  This limitation is not receiving one and only one per multi-frame as the claim […]

BSG TECH LLC v BUYSEASONS, INC., decided August 15, 2018

U.S. Patent Nos. 6,035,294; 6,243,699; and 6,195,652 are directed to a self-evolving generic index for organizing information in a database.  Class (e.g., used), parameter (e.g., color), and value (e.g., red) are used to organize (page 2).  To overcome specificity in prior art approaches, users may add new parameters – self-evolving – based on usage notation […]