United States Federal Circuit
Shaw Indus. Group, Inc. v. Automated Creel Sys., Inc., 2015-1116
In appeals from the US Patent and Trademark Office's (PTO) Patent Trial and Appeal Board's final written decision in consolidated inter partes reviews of claims 1-21 of a patent which relates to creels for supplying yarn and other stranded materials to a manufacturing process, the Board's decision is: 1) affirmed-in-part where the court lacks jurisdiction to review the Board's decision not to institute IPR on the Payne-based ground, under 5 U.S.C. section 315(b), which includes its decision not to consider the Payne-based ground in its final written decision; and 2) vacated-in-part where the language of the Board’s decision as to 'tube Q' is ambiguous at best.
Appellate Information
- Published 2016/03/23
Judges
- MOORE
Court
- United States Federal Circuit