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Federal Circuit Reverses PTAB Decision For Failing To Adequately Explain Its Obviousness Findings, <i>PTAB Litigation Blog</i>

Federal Circuit Reverses PTAB Decision For Failing To Adequately Explain Its Obviousness Findings, PTAB Litigation Blog

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The Federal Circuit In In re: NuVasive, Inc. vacated and remanded the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s finding that NuVasive’s claims are unpatentable in IPR2013-00506. The court held that it was unable to review the PTAB’s obviousness findings because the Board failed to adequately explain its finding of motivation to combine the prior art references.

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