Legal Opinion
In Re: Ethicon, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided January 3, 2017No. 2015-1696PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Dissenting opinion filed by Circuit Judge NEWMAN.
LOURIE, Circuit Judge.
Ethicon, Inc. (“Ethicon”) appeals from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (“the.Board’s”) decision in a merged inter partes reexamination affirming the examiner’s obviousness rejection of claims 1-17 and 19-23 of U.S. Patent 7,591,844 (“the ’844 patent”). See Boston Sci SCIMED v. Cordis Corp., No. 2014-008135, 2015 WL 883933 (P.T.A.B. Feb. 27, 2015) {“Decision”). Because the Board did not err in its obviousness conclusion, we affirm.
BACKGROUND,
Ethicon owns1 the ’844 patent, which…
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