Federal Circuit Upholds Claim Constructions, Obviousness Holding

(December 4, 2017, 4:07 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Findings by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that various challenged patent claims would have been obvious to a person of skill in the art were affirmed Nov. 30 by the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, which found no error in the board’s differing construction of “internet protocol” and “Internet protocol” (AIP Acquisition LLC v. Cisco Systems Inc., No. 16-2371, Fed. Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 24192)....