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Patents Obvious Over Same Prior Art Raised During Ex Parte Reexamination
Dissent finds a bias against protecting an invention that “does not advance rocket science or cancer medicine.” A divided Federal Circuit panel affirmed summary judgment that claims in Media Tech’s two patents to trading cards with attached items or fragments of memorabilia were obvious over prior art that had been considered in reexamination
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A Tale of Two Entrepreneurs
A comparison of two recent Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (“Board”) decisions demonstrates the difficulty of establishing nonobviousness, to the Board’s satisfaction, through evidence of commercial success. While in KSR Int’l v. Teleflex Inc. the Supreme Court rejected a “rigid