In a precedential decision today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) upheld a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) determination that all claims of a patent on voice command technology were unpatentable, but clarified that arguments not raised in a PTAB request for rehearing are not necessarily forfeited on appeal.
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