Eye-Sensor Patent Owner Slams Samsung Over Late AIA Move

By Jimmy Hoover

Law360, Washington (April 27, 2016, 4:42 PM ET) -- An Ontario college pummeled Samsung before the Patent Trial and Appeals Board Wednesday for bringing up late invalidity arguments attacking the school's eye-sensor patents in an America Invents Act review, telling a panel the move puts it at a serious disadvantage with little means to respond.

During a marathon hearing at the board, Queen's University accused Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. of raising a handful of never-before-heard prior art theories in its reply brief, most of which it was unable to respond to in a surreply....