May 21, 2019
Fish Secures IPR Win for Heil Environmental on Sanitation System Patent
Fish Secures IPR Win for Heil Environmental on Sanitation System Patent
May 21, 2019
Fish attorneys David Hoffman and Kenneth Darby recently secured a win for client The Heil Co. (d/b/a Heil Environmental) at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) when the Board found that a patent covering a system for tracking garbage cans that Heil challenged was invalid. The PTAB said in a final written decision that Heil had shown in IPR proceedings that each of the challenged claims in the patent were obvious based on earlier inventions and a magazine article. The patent at issue (U.S. Patent No. 8,146,798) is owned by Advanced Custom Engineered Systems & Equipment Co. and covers a system that allows municipalities to track garbage cans with radio frequency chips.
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