( January 8, 2025, 9:46 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A split Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel reversed a decision of the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) finding that multiple telecommunications companies failed to show that another company’s patent related to information encoding was unpatentable as obvious; the dissenting judge said that the panel should only have vacated PTAB’s holding....