Appellee To Federal Circuit: Krill Oil Patent Correctly Deemed Obvious

Mealey's (March 13, 2019, 12:03 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a March 12 appellee brief filed with the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, a prevailing inter partes review (IPR) petitioner defends a conclusion by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB or board) that all claims of a patent directed to the extraction of krill oil from denatured krill would be obvious to a person of skill in the art (POSITA) (Aker Biomarine Antarctic AS v. Rimfrost AS, No. 19-1097, Fed. Cir.)....