CPC Patent Technologies’ Secures 5th Significant Win in Key US Patent Claims Against Assa Abloy

 

CPC Patent Technologies Pty Ltd is pleased to advise shareholders that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) has issued a decision today against Assa Abloy affirming the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Final Written Decisions that upheld the validity of several claims in the Company’s ‘208 and ‘705 patents covering a biometric access control system.

The CAFC rejected each of Assa Abloy’s main arguments, largely on the grounds that CPC provided in its filings and at oral argument.  Assa Abloy argued the PTAB misconstrued a key claim term and ignored one of its unpatentability theories, but the CAFC found neither argument persuasive.

The CAFC concluded that Assa Abloy had not shown the PTAB’s claim construction was incorrect or that the PTAB failed to address any of Assa Abloy’s petitioned-for unpatentability grounds.

History – In May 2022 Assa Abloy and its subsidiaries, including HID Global Corp., ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions, Inc., and Master Lock Company LLC,  instigated legal proceedings against CPC’s ‘039, ‘208 and ‘705 patents for non-infringement and invalidity.

It should be noted that these patents are the very same patents that CPC commenced suing Apple for infringement of in February 2021 and that Apple commenced its Inter Parte Review (IPR) process conducted by the PTAB against the validity of these same patents in March 2021.  It should also be noted that Assa Abloy subsidiary, HID Global Corp., has a close association with Apple and provides services to Apple.  CPC has vigorously and successfully defended the validity of its patents against Apple’s IPRs.

Since 2022 CPC has vigorously defended the validity of its ‘039, ‘208 and ‘705 patents through Assa Abloy’s IPR process conducted by the PTAB and numerous lengthy and costly appeal processes through the US court system culminating in the decisions handed down today by the CAFC which concludes that the ‘208 and ‘705 patents are patentable.

A full description of the case is set out in the attached US based “IP Watchdog” publication.

 

Prior releases on litigation

28 May 2026 – CPC Patent Technologies’ 4th Win in Key US Patent Claims Against Assa Abloy

11 May 2026 – CPC Patent Technologies’ Significant Win in Key US Patent Claims Against Assa Abloy

4 March 2026 – Update – CPC v Apple Appeal in Federal Court of Australia, Sydney