Mealey's (August 12, 2019, 12:56 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an Aug. 12 holding, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals vacated a determination of patent obviousness after finding that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board “conflated” corresponding structure in a patent’s specification “with a structural definition” for the term “mechanical control assembly” (MTD Products Inc. v. Andrei Iancu, Director, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, No. 17-2292, Fed. Cir.)....