After Rehearing Request, Panel Modifies, Reissues Patent Definiteness Ruling

Mealey's (October 18, 2022, 12:43 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A divided Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Oct. 17 stood by its January holding that two method patents are not indefinite but modified the decision to remove the panel majority’s earlier determination that an examiner’s allowance of amended claims in response to an indefiniteness rejection is entitled to “appropriate deference.”...