Patent Owner Says Outcome Of IPRs Not Preclusive In District Court Case

( February 16, 2024, 1:51 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal judge in Wisconsin wrongly concluded that final written decisions (FWDs) by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that declared certain independent patent claims obvious eliminated the need for a defendant in a subsequent infringement action to establish that its cited prior art satisfies the limitations of dependent claims of the same patents, the patent owner tells the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals....