Fed. Circ. Partly Reverses PTAB Ruling On Phone Jack Patent
ADVERTISEMENT Fed. Circ. Partly Reverses PTAB Ruling On Phone Jack Patent Law360 (July 1, 2021, 6:55 PM EDT) -- The Federal Circuit on Thursday partly overturned a Patent Trial and Appeal Board ruling that Pulse Electronics Inc.'s proposed amended claims to a phone jack patent contained ambiguous language that requires "much speculation" that rendered them invalid. In a 12-page nonprecedential opinion, a three-judge panel said that the PTAB erred in finding certain substitute claims in Pulse's patent invalid as indefinite. The board had found that because the patent specification did not def...