ARE Patent Law Alert: 
PTAB Reverses Examiner’s Obviousness Rejections In Two Related Appeals Where Examiner Did Not Provide An Adequate Rationale For Combining References

On November 30, 2012, the recently formed Patent Trial and Appeals Board (“PTAB”) issued two decisions in appeals in which they reversed the examiner’s obviousness rejections based on the examiner’s failure to satisfy the standard for obviousness articulated by the U.S. Supreme Court in KSR Int’l Co. v. Teleflex, Inc., 550 U.S. 398 (2007). More […]