Parties Brief Federal Circuit In Dispute Over Pesticide Production Patent

Mealey's (December 13, 2017, 12:05 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a Dec. 8 appellee brief, a prevailing patent challenger told the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to uphold findings by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that a claimed process for producing the insecticide fipronil would have been obvious to a person of skill in the art (POSA) (Finchimica S.P.A. v. Adama Makhteshim Ltd., No. 17-2195, Fed. Cir.)....