Fed. Circ. Says Skepticism Can't Save Robotic Surgery Patent

By Ryan Davis (April 29, 2022, 8:41 PM EDT) -- The Federal Circuit on Friday renewed Auris Health's bid to invalidate an Intuitive Surgical patent, saying the Patent Trial and Appeal Board wrongly cited skepticism about robotic surgery in refusing to declare the patent obvious, though a dissent decried what it said was the creation of an "inflexible and rigid" new rule....

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