Mealey's (December 4, 2017, 1:40 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Although affirming a construction by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the claim term “request,” the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Dec. 1 nonetheless vacated in full the board’s determination that two patents are nonobvious and partly vacated the board’s holding that the patents are not anticipated by prior art (Microsoft Corp., et al., v. Parallel Networks Licensing LLC, Nos. 2016-2515, -2517, -2518, -2519, -2642, -2644, -2645, -2646, Fed. Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 24333)....