PTO Director Defends Claim Construction In Appeal Of Rejected Patent

Mealey's (April 24, 2017, 9:45 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on May 1 will hear oral arguments in a dispute over the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s construction of the disputed term “traversing,” as it appears in a patent application for a device for extracting energy from fluid flow within the body (In re: Medical Biomech Partnership, No. 16-2159, Fed. Cir.)....