Intellectual Ventures<\/a> can appeal further, but maybe they will not.<\/p>\nFrom the decision’s conclusion:<\/p>\n
“The Examiner established that the combination of Ensor, Ahuja ’88, Ahuja ’90, and known prior art renders obvious:<\/p>\n
1. separate data and video paths arranged over unshielded twisted pair (UTP) wires as required by claim 1;<\/p>\n
2. the limitations as required by claims 4 and 5; and<\/p>\n
3. a combined mosaic video image as required by claim 10.<\/p>\n
“The Examiner did not establish that the combination renders obvious:<\/p>\n
4. a system capable of the transporting audio and visual (AV) signals over a UPT (sic<\/em>) AV path and reproducing spoken audio and visual images based on the AV signals, as required by claim 11.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"maybe it IS over? I first encountered the ‘547 patent, “UTP based video and data conferencing” in 2004, when Avistar was challenging Polycom, and I asserted then that ‘547 should not have been granted. Three years ago, Microsoft filed for ex parte re-examination of ‘547. I speculated that ‘547 would not survive re-examination. Last week, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8c9uP-8Q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}