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  3. Federal Circuit Vacates PTAB Rejection of Catheter Patent Application Over Incorrect Claim Construction

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Federal Circuit Vacates PTAB Rejection of Catheter Patent Application Over Incorrect Claim Construction

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a decision today in In re Incept LLC, vacating and remanding a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decision that had affirmed an examiner’s rejection of a medical catheter patent application as obvious. Since the Board’s obviousness analysis relied on an incorrect construction of the claim term “flow barrier,” the CAFC declined to reach the underlying obviousness question and returned the case to the Board for further proceedings.

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