Mealey's (January 30, 2018, 3:53 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a Jan. 30 decision, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals partly affirmed a rejection by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of various claims of a reciprocating rotary arthroscopic instrument patent but reversed with regard to others, amid findings that the board erred in deeming one prior art reference analogous (Smith & Nephew Inc. v. Hologic Inc., No. 17-1008, Fed. Cir.)....