The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit addressed, for the first time, the issue of when the Patent Trial & Appeal Board (Board) may raise a ground of unpatentability that was not advanced by a petitioner in relation...more
Finding that a patent’s preamble was not limiting and the patent owner’s secondary considerations of non-obviousness were weak, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a finding of obviousness by the Patent...more
Affirming a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decision finding claims directed to an epilepsy drug patentable, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found that a skilled artisan would not have been motivated to...more