Panel Affirms Board, Deems Conversion Array Patent Obvious

Mealey's (September 20, 2019, 11:21 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a Sept. 18 decision, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals agreed with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that three claims of a patent directed to a digital-to-analog (DAC) and analog-to-digital (ADC) converter patent would have been obvious to a person of skill in the art (Innovative Memory Systems Inc. v. Micron Technology Inc., No. 18-1348, Fed. Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 27988)....