United States Federal Circuit

In an appeal of a decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) upholding an examiner's rejection of all claims of a patent, directed to a circuit arrangement for integrating an electronic data processing (EDP) system with telephone systems connected to an integrated services digital network (ISDN) telephone network, as unpatentable over the prior art during an ex parte reexamination, the PTAB's decision is affirmed where, although the PTAB should have applied the Phillips standard of claim construction rather than the broadest reasonable interpretation standard used by the examiner because the patent expired during the reexamination, the PTAB's claim construction was correct even under the Phillips standard,

Appellate Information

• Published 2016/08/09

Judges

• STOLL

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel