( January 15, 2025, 12:53 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed a finding from the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) that claims in a company’s patent related to a hitch mounting system were unpatentable as obvious; the panel held that there was no error in the PTAB’s motivation-to-combine analysis when addressing prior art references....