On February 9, 2023 the PTAB issued a Final Written Decision in
Early Warning Services, LLC and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
v. WePay Global Payments LLC, determining the design claim of
US D930,702 ("D'702") unpatentable, as both
anticipated and obvious based on a single reference, Reddy, US
2018/0260806 A1 ("Reddy"). See Consolidated
PGR2022-00031 and PGR2022-00045, Paper No. 34. D'702
claimed a display screen having an animated graphical user
interface (GUI).
As shown below, while much of the GUI was in broken lines, and
thus disclaimed, a first image of the claimed GUI depicted three
square corners of a QR Code, and a second image depicted a price of
$0.00:
The PTAB found D'702 was both anticipated and obvious from
Reddy. The PTAB reproduced the following comparison of
representative figures of D'702 (modified to omit all aspects
that were depicted in broken lines, a technique employed by the
Federal Circuit in Campbell Soup Co. v. Gamon Plus,
Inc.1,
