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Fed. Circ. Reverses PTAB, Saves Black & Decker Motor Patent !!!

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posted on May 21, 2016 02:36PM

Fed. Circ. Reverses PTAB, Saves Black & Decker Motor Patent

By Kevin Penton

Law360, New York (May 18, 2016, 4:56 PM ET) -- The Federal Circuit on Wednesday reversed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s invalidation of two claims for a Black & Decker patent covering an outdoor trimmer, finding that the board did not adequately explain why it thought the claims were obvious.

PTAB erred by not detailing why it held that a skilled artisan would have found it obvious to replace or adapt the cited prior art to arrive at the claimed invention, according to the ruling by the appellate court panel, which conversely also affirmed the...

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