When Judge Pauline Newman helped create the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in 1982 to have exclusive jurisdiction over patent cases, no one could have guessed the drama that would follow almost 40 years later. On this episode of Clause 8, I spoke with Newman's counsel and former clerk, Greg Dolin.
Recently, the Federal Circuit affirmed a finding of non-obviousness from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of a design patent owned by GM. While non-precedential, this decision.
Federal Circuit affirmed finding non obviousness from PTAB of design patent owned by GM. The appellate panel clarified that the obviousness formula set forth in the long standing Durling and Rosen tests was not overruled implicitly by KSR International Co. v. Teleflex Inc.
Amir Hekmati, a U.S. Marine veteran from Flint, Mich., had applied for compensation from the federal fund after he was imprisoned in Iran for 4½ years and released in 2016 as a part of the Iran nuclear deal.