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For Fellow Coffee Lovers: PTAB Denies Keurig’s IPR Petition Against Touch Coffee

January 5, 2017

KEURIG GREEN MOUNTAIN, INC., Petitioner, v.
TOUCH COFFEE & BEVERAGES, LLC, Patent Owner.

Case IPR2016-01390; Patent 9,144,343 B2

According to the PTAB, Keurig did not provide adequate “articulated reasoning,” for establishing a reasonable likelihood of prevailing. Expert witnesses cannot merely say something is obvious. They need to explain why it’s obvious.

https://ptabdata.uspto.gov/ptab-api/documents/600671/native