United States Federal Circuit

In this patent litigation involving plaintiff's '519 patient, which relates to cutting tools containing ruthenium as a binder that are coated using physical vapor deposition, plaintiff appeals the decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in an inter partes reexamination of the '519 patent in which the Board entered a new anticipation ground of rejection asserted by defendant against certain of the pending claims and affirmed the Examiner's obviousness rejection of certain remaining claims. The judgment of the Board is affirmed, where: 1) substantial evidence supports the Board's determinations of anticipation and obviousness; and 2) there was no error in the Board's legal conclusion of obviousness.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/25/2015
• Published 03/25/2015

Judges

• Linn

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

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