AutoStore Loses Bid to Challenge Ocado Robot Warehouse Patent
AutoStore failed to persuade the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board to take a second look at an Ocado patent for a robotic warehouse system.
AutoStore had to show that it had a “reasonable likelihood” of winning its argument that at least part of Ocado patent 9,796,080 shouldn’t have been issued, and it didn’t meet that threshold, the review board said
Ocado said its patent is for a system that stores both delivery and storage containers, and thus “generates efficiencies and conserves resources, including floor space and robotic load handlers”
AutoStore argued that the Ocado patent “claims nothing new” and ...
