Federal Circuit Partly Vacates Patent Board Nonobviousness Holdings

Mealey's (August 18, 2021, 1:29 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an Aug. 13 ruling, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals agreed with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that certain claims of two patents directed to a tray used in a common medical procedure were not proven obvious by a medical technology company in an inter partes review....