In 2020, the EU Patent Office Rejected an Apple Invention relating to Under-Display Optical Fingerprint Technology
One of Apple s April patent applications that was filed in Europe titled Under-Display Optical Fingerprint Sensor with Narrow Field-of-View (NFV) Collimator and a Thin-Film Transistor (TFT)-based Organic Imager was definitely different read. In it, we read that the EU Patent Office in Germany rejected Apple s patent on the grounds that specific patent claims (1, 2, 9-11 and 17 and 18)
lacked novelty and that certain claims (1-20) lacked
inventive step.
Apple s legal representatives responded by stating that they respectfully disagreed with the EU s Patent Office decision on patentability and set out their case accordingly. The letter was signed and dated on July 24, 2020.