( January 28, 2025, 2:14 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a case appearing before the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals for the second time, a panel said the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) on remand did not err in its construction of the phrase “hardware buffer” in a computer processor patent dispute between Qualcomm Inc. and Intel Corp.; the panel affirmed the PTAB’s holding that all claims in Qualcomm’s patent are unpatentable as obvious....