Patent Board’s Inurement Determination Reversed, Remanded By Federal Circuit

(September 21, 2017, 12:18 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A rejection by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of assertions by an appellant that it created a prototype embodying a claimed invention before the priority date of a cited prior art reference was reversed and remanded by the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Sept. 20 (NFC Technology LLC v. Joseph Matal, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, No. 16-1808, Fed. Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 18164)....

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