Federal Circuit Upholds Patent Board Obviousness, Anticipation Rulings

(October 4, 2017, 1:27 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Citing the doctrine of collateral estoppel, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Oct. 3 found that an inventor is barred from challenging a decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that various claims of her patent are anticipated or obvious (In re: Lakshmi Arunachalam, No. 16-1607, Fed. Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 19105)....

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