( December 17, 2024, 11:05 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Dec. 16 said the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) failed to properly explain one of its holdings at the conclusion of inter partes review (IPR) proceedings involving a patent involving data transmission; the panel vacated the PTAB’s finding that the patent’s claims were not obvious....