Mealey's (April 29, 2022, 1:26 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an April 29 ruling, a divided Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals vacated and remanded a determination by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that a person of skill in the art would not be motivated to combine prior art references that the board itself said disclose each limitation of various challenged claims of a robotic surgery patent....