Patent Owner Tells PTO Director Board Violated Administrative Procedure Act

(October 5, 2023, 11:30 AM EDT) -- ALEXANDRIA, Va. — In a request for review by the director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, a patent owner on Oct. 4 asserted that a final written decision (FWD) by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board endorsed a construction of the disputed claim term “accessibility attribute,” which differs “materially” from that advanced in an Apple Inc. petition for inter partes review (IPR) as well as the board itself when instituting IPR....