USPTO Sides With Apple In Software Activation Patent Row

By Jeff Sistrunk ( June 3, 2014, 8:52 PM EDT) -- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board on Monday invalidated all claims of one of Achates Reference Publishing Inc.'s patents for software activation technology and most of another, finding that Apple Inc. showed the claims at issue were unpatentable in light of prior art....

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