Mealey's (November 23, 2020, 1:34 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an intervenor brief filed Nov. 20 with the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office asserted that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board properly construed “glitch” as the term appears in a patent covering a system for waking up an idled electronic device; that same day, Apple Inc. also weighed in in the dispute, urging the panel to affirm the board’s finding of unpatentability (Uniloc 2017 LLC v. Apple Inc., No. 20-1699, Fed. Cir.)....