The full Federal Circuit has turned down a legal argument from Atlanta Gas Light that attempted to revive a decade-old patent fight by arguing that a panel ruling the natural gas wholesaler lost this year gives the Patent Trial and Appeal Board the improper authority to overturn circuit court decisions.
Federal Circuit dismissed appeal, finding it lacked appellate jurisdiction to review a Patent Trial & Appeal Board Board decision to vacate an institution decision of inter partes review IPR based in part on the Board’s time bar evaluation. Atlanta Gas Light Co. v. Bennet Regulator Guards
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit dismissed an appeal, finding it lacked appellate jurisdiction to review a Patent Trial & Appeal Board (Board) decision to vacate an.
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit says that it has no place reviewing a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision to terminate an inter partes review of a gas pressure regulator patent.
A split Federal Circuit panel tossed an appeal by Atlanta Gas Light Co. of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's termination of its challenge to a gas pressure valve patent on Friday, finding that the court didn't have the ability to hear the dispute.