( April 16, 2025, 2:49 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on April 15 rejected a patent holder’s petition for panel or en banc rehearing after a panel of judges in January held there was no error in the findings from the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) that claims of the company’s patent were invalid as obvious; the appeals court will not hear arguments from the company that the panel wrongly considered an “abandoned patent application” in affirming PTAB’s findings....