Google Scores Rare Rehearing In AIA Review

By Matthew Bultman

Law360, New York (June 16, 2016, 2:49 PM ET) -- Google Inc. won a rare rehearing at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board on Wednesday, when the board conceded to having misapprehended some of the internet search giant’s arguments about the obviousness of certain claims in a web patent.

The board had agreed in April to institute an America Invents Act covered business method review of Brite Smart Corp. CEO Patrick Zuili's patent on the grounds that some of its claims covered only abstract ideas.

But PTAB refused to institute trial on Google’s argument that those...