Friday October 3, 8:00 am ET U.S. Patent Office Rejects Wider Networks' Patent GERMANTOWN, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PCTEL, Inc. (NASDAQ: PCTI - News ), a leader in propagation and optimization solutions for the wireless industry, announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) responded favorably to PCTEL’s request to reexamine a patent practiced by Wider Networks. This patent failed to acknowledge PCTEL’s prior art and technology, specifically technology pertaining to advanced interference measurements. In their summary of action, the USPTO rejected all 13 claims of Wider Networks’ patent (Patent Number: 6,754,487). The action by the USPTO supports PCTEL’s strong intellectual property position in interference management for cellular networks. “We take seriously the infringement of our technology. When others...
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