Patent 10,492,541 B2 including, but not limited to, water, beads, solvents, active ingredients, ethanol, plant extracts, natural orartificial flavors, and/or vapor formers suchas glycerine and propylene glycol.
Specifically, for purposes of the Petition, Petitioner proposes that the Board should construe the term “face” according to Patent Owner’s contentionsin the District Court case, namely, to mean “the surface of an object,’ which does not need to be bounded by one or more edges.”Jd.
For reasons that follow, however, we find Petitioner does not show sufficiently that an ordinarily skilled artisan would have understood the Juul Articles to disclose a pod assembly having a device compartmentdistinct from a pre-vapor formulation compartmentas specified in claim 24.
For example, in connection with the front, rear, and side faces allegedly identifiable in Verleur’s cartomizer 200A,Petitioner does not explain where one surface endsor another begins, and no explanationis self- evident upon review of Figure 12.
Patent 10,492,541 B2 Evenif we accept that the “outer shell” of Verleur’s vaporizer may have external “sides,” as arguably suggested by Verleur’s Figure 15, Mr. Leinsing does not explain adequately why that would have suggestedthat the cartomizer, designed for insertion into an internal chamberof that “outer shell,” also has a plurality of sides.