Federal Circuit Vacates Reversed Rejection Of New Patent Claims

Mealey's (November 12, 2019, 2:05 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A panel of the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Nov. 8 found that, on remand from a previous appeal, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board conducted an erroneous analysis of analogous prior art when reversing various rejections to proposed new claims in a fire prevention patent (Airbus S.A.S. v. Firepass Corporation, No. 19-1803, Fed. Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 33435)....