Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a nonprecedential ruling in CPC Patent Technologies Pty Ltd. v. ASSA ABLOY AB reversing an obviousness determination by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) over a dissent by Circuit Judge Evan Wallach from the majority’s analysis of the PTAB’s factual findings on prior art disclosures. Although the reversal gives CPC Patent another opportunity to salvage patent claims to biometric card security systems, the CAFC also issued a Rule 36 summary affirmance affirming the invalidity of other claims from the patent-at-issue, while the U.S. Supreme Court denied cert to a CPC Patent petition challenging the CAFC’s Rule 36 practice in separate PTAB appeals.
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