Even With Narrowing Claim Construction, PTAB Finds Dependent

In
Fitbit, Inc. v. Valencell, Inc., IPR2017-00319,
Paper 73 (Apr. 5, 2021), on remand from the Federal Circuit, the
Board determined the patentability of several previously omitted
dependent claims and found them unpatentable as obvious.
Fitbit petitioned for
Inter partes review of
Valencell's patent directed to a method of generating data
output containing physiological and motion-related information,
arguing that several of its claims were obvious.  In its
original Final Written Decision, the Board found the patent's
sole independent claim to be obvious. But the Board refused to
consider the obviousness argument of several dependent claims
because, in the Board's view, the obviousness challenge of

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