Federal Circuit: Patent Board Misinterpreted Earlier Mandate

Mealey's (September 10, 2019, 1:12 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a Sept. 9 ruling, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals found that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board misinterpreted the appellate court’s 2017 mandate that vacated as moot an appeal of an adverse inter partes re-examination (Valspar Sourcing Inc. v. PPG Industries Inc., Nos. 2018-1462, -1463, -2164, -2165, Fed. Cir.)....