Federal Circuit: Patent Owner Successfully Antedated Prior Art

Mealey's (March 27, 2019, 1:38 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a March 26 decision, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a rejection by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of a patent owner’s attempt to submit a transcript of a deposition by the inventor but disagreed with the board’s acceptance of and reliance on a prior art patent (Arctic Cat Inc. v. GEP Power Products Inc., Nos. 18-1520, -1521, Fed. Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 8964)....