Mealey's (June 12, 2018, 10:26 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a June 11 decision, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals partly affirmed and partly vacated findings of patentability by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board with regard to methods and systems for ameliorating aberrant spinal column deviations (Medtronic Inc. v. Mark A. Barry, Nos. 17-1169, Fed. Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 15667)....