Law360, New York (March 28, 2011, 5:32 PM ET) -- Refusing to expand an examiner's requirements for establishing a prima facie case, the Federal Circuit on Monday rejected a challenge to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's finding that most claims in a photodetector array system patent application were invalid.
In a precedential ruling affirming the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences' July 2009 decision sustaining the invalidity of these claims, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit shot down inventors Edward K.Y. Jung and Lowell L. Wood Jr.'s contention...
Fed. Circ. Affirms Patent Examiners' Review Standards
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