Fed Circuit Watch: PTAB Messed Up Obviousness Analysis (Again)

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The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) seems to have bungled an obviousness analysis (again), and was dinged by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in E.I. DuPont de Nemours v. Synvina C.V.,[1] decided on September 17, 2018.  The case is a good primer on the law of obviousness related to overlapping ranges. …

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