Federal Circuit: Obviousness Finding In Check Patent Row Should’ve Gone Further

( February 4, 2025, 11:38 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Largely affirming but partly reversing findings from the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), a panel in the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said in two related opinions that PTAB should have found that more claims in electronic banking patents held by the United Services Automobile Association (USAA) were unpatentable as obvious....