Legal Opinion
Belden Inc. v. Berk-Tek LLC
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided November 5, 2015No. 2014-1575, 2014-1576PublishedCited by 107 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TARANTO, Circuit Judge.
Belden Inc. owns U.S. Patent No. 6,074,-503, which discloses and claims a method for making a communications cable. On a petition for inter partes review under 35 U.S.C. § 311 et seq. filed by the predecessor of Berk-Tek LLC, the Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board instituted a review and later reached a mixed decision: it rejected claims 1-4 of the '503 patent for obviousness, while confirming claims 5 and 6. We now affirm the rejection of claims 1-4 and reverse the upholding of claims 5 and 6. We also reject Belden’s contention that the Board…
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