Rejection Of Reissue Patent Claims Challenged In Appeal To Federal Circuit

Mealey's (August 2, 2018, 7:21 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that upheld an examiner’s rejection of 21 claims of a reissue application for a patent relating to a “carpeted vehicle load floor” on grounds of failure to comply with the written description requirement was error, an appellant maintains in a recent appeal to the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (In re:  Global IP Holdings LLC, No. 18-1426, Fed. Cir.)....