Mealey's (October 14, 2021, 1:15 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In response to a petition for rehearing filed by an inventor, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Oct. 12 reissued an August ruling concluding that the Patent Act is insufficiently explicit to overcome the presumption against fee-shifting with regard to expert witness fees incurred by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in actions brought under Section 145 of the statute....