Federal Circuit Determines Anticipation of Dependent Claims and Sufficient Evidence of Commercial Success

September 6, 2023

The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC), on August 16, 2023, affirmed the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB) decision, that the claims of Incept LLC’s U.S. Patent No. 8,257,723 (‘723) and U.S. Patent No. 7,744,913 (‘913) are unpatentable as being anticipated by, or obvious over asserted prior art. The decision on appeal considered whether the PTAB erred in its final decision that Palette Life Sciences, Inc. (Palette) had established the challenged claims to be unpatentable over prior art for the inter partes reviews of the ‘723 and ‘913 patents.<... Read more