March 11, 2022
The Federal Circuit backed a ruling Friday from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that threw out a patent covering a device for unclogging drains, agreeing with the board that a similar device designed in 1906 already covered it.
December 01, 2021
An inventor has asked the Federal Circuit to reverse an inter partes reexamination decision that invalidated his patent covering a device for unclogging drains — asserted in a decade-old New Jersey lawsuit — and that he says was "so weak that no one will appear to defend it."
March 04, 2020
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is urging the Federal Circuit to reconsider its decision ordering the agency to hold a new hearing in a patent reexamination in light of the Arthrex ruling, saying reexaminations involve different legal issues that do not require the same remedy.
January 21, 2020
Rebuffing the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director, the Federal Circuit has ordered the agency to hold a new hearing in a patent reexamination in light of the Arthrex decision.