Federal Circuit Upholds PTAB Obviousness Finding Against Memory Module Patent

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a precedential decision today in Netlist, Inc. v. Micron Technology, Inc., affirming a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) final written decision that found all challenged claims of a Netlist computer memory patent unpatentable as obvious. The court rejected Netlist’s arguments that the Board’s findings lacked substantial evidentiary support and that the Board violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) in reaching its conclusi