United States:
In Re: Man Machine Interface Technologies LLC, No. 2015-1562 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 19, 2016)
28 April 2016
Haug Partners
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Man Machine appealed from an ex parte reexamination
decision wherein the Patent Trial and Appeal Board
("Board") upheld an examiner's rejection of seven
claims on anticipation and obviousness grounds. The Federal Circuit
reversed the Board's anticipation findings, concluding that the
Board's claim construction was overly broad and contrary to the
Federal Circuit's requirement that the USPTO apply the Broadest
Reasonable Interpretation in interpreting the claims of an
unexpired patent. More specifically, the Federal Circuit concluded
that the Board's broad construction improperly encompassed
configurations expressly disclaimed in the specification. The
Federal Circuit did, however, uphold PTAB's findings of
obviousness for four of the claims on appeal, and remanded for
further proceedings with respect to the other three claims.
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