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Implications of the CAFC’s IOENGINE, LLC v. Ingenico Opinion for Patent Claims Incorporating Electronic Communication Limitations

In IOENGINE, LLC v. Ingenico Inc., 2021-1227 (Fed. Cir. May 3, 2024), the CAFC considered the printed matter doctrine in reviewing a PTAB determination that certain limitations in two claims were entitled to no patentable weight — weight that otherwise could have been used to distinguish the claims from prior art. The Board’s determination led it to find that the claims were indeed anticipated by prior art.

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