Divided Federal Circuit: Insufficient Explanation Given For Invalidating Patent

Mealey's (March 26, 2018, 12:42 PM EDT) -- ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A June 2016 finding by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO)’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board that six claims of a data network power consumption patent would have been obvious to a person of skill in the art was not sufficiently explained in the board’s final written decision, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled March 23, in a loss for Apple Inc. (DSS Technology Management Inc. v. Apple Inc., Nos. 16-2523, -2524, Fed. Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 7438)....