( April 7, 2025, 11:33 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel dismissed a patent applicant’s appeal of a decision from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) to reject his application for a patent on a touch screen product; the panel said that the man’s “atypical case” essentially amounted to a request for the PTO to grant an application for a patent that had already expired....