The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) recently considered challenges to three GM design patents for car parts. During a four-hour session, PTAB heard three separate cases brought by LKQ Corp. and its subsidiary, Keystone Automotive Industries Inc., as they sought to invalidate GM’s design patents. This hearing followed a previous challenge win by LKQ against GM’s design patent.
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