Legal & Courts  September 21, 2020

Regulators decline to review validity of Gogo competitor’s patent

BROOMFIELD — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently decided it would not honor a request by Gogo Inc. (Nasdaq: GOGO) to review the validity of a patent held by a competitor.

Gogo, a in-flight broadband connectivity firm with a major business unit headquartered in Broomfield, petitioned the office this year to review SmartSky Networks LLC’s patent — referred to as U.S. Patent No. 9,312,947 or the ‘947 patent — that “relates to a broadband data communications system for in-flight aircraft,” according to PTO records.

Gogo requested an inter partes review, which allows parties to…

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A Maryland native, Lucas has worked at news agencies from Wyoming to South Carolina before putting roots down in Colorado.
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