PTAB Strategies and Insights - April 2021: Take Care When Relying on Non-Self-Enabling References
By EsqSocial Corporation 29/04/21
In Raytheon Techs. Corp. v. General Electric Co., 20-1755 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 16, 2021) (precedential), the Federal Circuit issued a rare reversal of a PTAB final determination of obviousness because the principal reference used in the obviousness combination was not “self-enabled,” and no other record evidence cured that defect. Raytheon owns U.S. Patent No. 9,695,751. The ’751 patent is directed to a multi-stage, geared, gas turbine aircraft engine. The independent claims include traditional...
By: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.