Mealey's (April 19, 2018, 7:52 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an April 12 appellee brief filed with the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, Nike Inc. defended a decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that rejected allegations by adidas AG that two Nike patents covering the manufacture of footwear with a textile upper would have been obvious to a person of skill in the art (POSITA) (adidas AG v. Nike Inc., No. 18-1180, Fed. Cir.)....