Fed. Circ. Raytheon Ruling Shifts Obviousness Analysis

By John Nilsson (June 18, 2021, 1:18 PM EDT) -- In Raytheon Technologies Corp. v. General Electric Co.[1], the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit returned to one of the more interesting issues in patent law jurisprudence — the distinctions between analyzing an anticipatory reference under Title 35 of the U.S. Code, Section 102, and analyzing an obviousness reference (or combination of references) under Section 103....

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