To prove obviousness, a party must show that a skilled artisan would have been motivated to combine the prior art teachings to create the claimed method with a reasonable expectation of success. See Allergan, Inc. v. Sandoz Inc., 726 F.3d 1286, 1291 (Fed. Cir. 2013). The improvement over prior art must be "more than the predictable use of prior art elements according to their established functions."

To prove obviousness, a party must show that a skilled artisan would have been motivated to combine the prior art teachings with a reasonable expectation of success. See Allergan, Inc. v. Sandoz Inc., 726 F.3d 1286, 1291 (Fed. Cir. 2013). Plaintiff moves for summary judgment because it argues Defendant's obviousness case fails in two ways. First, Plaintiff argues Defendant has failed to produce sufficient evidence that it would have been obvious to implement a file access control mechanism entirely locally.