Obviousness Finding By Patent Board At Issue In Federal Circuit Appeal

Mealey's (August 15, 2017, 1:12 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A determination by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that two claims of a circuit patent are obvious should be reversed because the decisions runs afoul of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in KSR Int’l Co. v. Teleflex Inc., 550 U.S. 398, 418 (2007), a patent owner tells the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in a May 8 appellant brief (Philips Lighting North America Corp. v. Wangs Alliance Corporation, No. 17-1526, Fed. Cir.)....