Western Union Co. v. MoneyGram Payment Systems, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the asserted dependent claims, which “add[ed] only trivial improve- ments that would have been a matter of common sense to one of ordinary skill in the art,” were obvious as a matter of law
• reversing jury’s implicit factual findings of the scope and content of the prior art, motivation to combine, and evidence of secondary considerations
• reversing jury’s implicit factual findings of the scope and content of the prior art, motiva- tion to combine, and evidence of secondary considera- tions
• common sense to add electronic transaction device from prior art system where “such a transition was commonplace in the art”
• “[W]eak secondary considerations generally do not overcome a strong prima facie case of ob- viousness.”
• “[W]eak secondary considerations gener- ally do not overcome a strong prima facie case of obvious- ness.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).