NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential. United States Court of Appeals
for the Federal Circuit
RAFFEL SYSTEMS, LLC,
Appellant
v.
MAN WAH HOLDINGS LIMITED,
Appellee
2020-2126
Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in No. PGR2019-00029.
Decided: June 10, 2021
JOHN C. SCHELLER, Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP, Madison, WI, for appellant. Also represented by MICHAEL BESS, BRIANNA JANE SIEBKEN, CHICAGO, IL; DAVID A. CASIMIR, TYLER SISK, Casimir Jones, S.C., Middleton, WI. GARY HNATH, Mayer Brown LLP, Washington, DC, for appellee. Also represented by CLARK BAKEWELL, MICHAEL LOUIS LINDINGER, MINH NGUYEN-DANG, NICOLE A. SAHARSKY; HAO TAN, SHEN WANG, Arch & Lake LLP, Chicago, IL.
22 RAFFEL SYSTEMS, LLC v. MAN WAH HOLDINGS LIMITED
Before REYNA, HUGHES, and STOLL, Circuit Judges.
Raffel Systems, LLC appeals the decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board concluding that claim 1 of U.S. Patent No. D821,986 is unpatentable under the on-sale bar. The Board found that an email sent by patent owner Raffel offered for sale an embodiment of the claim in small quantities on-demand over a year before the priority date of the patent. We have considered the appellant’s arguments that the Board’s on-sale determination was unsupported by substantial evidence and find them unpersuasive. We therefore affirm.