Ehsun Forghany

2 weeks ago | natlawreview.com | Ehsun Forghany |Paul Choi |Lynn L. Bergeson |Carla N. Hutton

In its recent In re Floyd opinion, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a decision by Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) to reject a design applicant’s priority claim to an earlier utility filing for failing to adequately support the claimed design, while simultaneously finding that those same disclosures in the utility filing anticipated the claimed design.