Autumn Villarreal

Nov 4, 2024 | mondaq.com | Autumn Villarreal |Peter Schechter

On September 16, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) vacated and remanded an invalidity ruling by the U.S. District Court for the District Minnesota which concluded that independent claims using the same language to define different boundaries of a "substantially rigid portion/segment" of a catheter were "mutually exclusive" and, therefore, indefinite.