Prior Art

Here’s What Happened: Healthier Choices Management Corp is a grocery and vape store chain. Healthier Choices applied to patent its own electronic vaping pipe. Philip Morris also had a line of electronic vaping pipes. In an interparty proceeding before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, Philip Morris challenged Healthier Choices’ patent. The Board agreed with […]

Here’s What Happened: Patents are new, useful and nonobvious. New means there’s no prior art. Prior art is any evidence that an invention or idea was already known when the inventor applied for a patent. Which brings us to a case decided by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”). Petitioner, Next Step Group, Inc., […]