KLARQUIST NEWS
Klarquist Win for SAP
On March 13, 2026, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board issued a Final Written Decision in SAP America, Inc. v. Cyandia, Inc., IPR2024‑01433, finding all challenged claims of U.S. Patent No. 8,751,948 B2 unpatentable.
The Board held that Cyandia’s claims are not entitled to the priority date of the 2009 parent application because the earlier filing did not support the “determining a notification method” limitation—particularly with respect to offline‑device states. Without that priority, the PCT publication qualified as prior art, and the Board concluded that all challenged claims are obvious under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
Klarquist attorneys Roy Chamcharas, Andrew Mason, Todd Siegel, and Samuel Thacker represented SAP.