PTAB / Federal Circuit / Obviousness / PTAB Procedures and Rules
To avoid running afoul of the APA, patent owners must be permitted to respond to “new” grounds of unpatentability
In In re: NuVasive, Inc., the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded the Board’s final written decision in IPR2013-0508 for further proceedings. At issue was the Board’s reliance on a prior art figure that was first raised in petitioner’s reply and which the Board did not permit the patent owner to address in the preceding. In […]