Method Of Making Semiconductor Devices Is Unpatentable, Panel Says

(November 20, 2023, 1:11 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an appeal “principally” of a claim construction by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said Nov. 17 that all seven challenged claims of a patented method of making semiconductor devices would be obvious to a person of skill in the art....