{"id":1109,"date":"2016-08-09T15:01:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T19:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2016-08-13T15:50:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T19:50:30","slug":"federal-circuit-vacates-and-remands-ptab-obviousness-determination-not-supported-by-adequate-reasoned-explanation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1109","title":{"rendered":"Federal Circuit Vacates and Remands PTAB Obviousness Determination Not Supported by Adequate Reasoned Explanation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>In re Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc.<\/em>, 2015-1050, 2015-1058 (August 9, 2016), the Federal Circuit affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remaned, the PTAB&#8217;s decision in IPR2013-00206 and IPR2013-00208 that claims 1\u20138 and\u00a017\u201323 of U.S. Patent No. 8,251,997, were obvious and therefore invalid.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Circuit largely affirmed the PTAB obviosuness determination. \u00a0 However, the Federal Circuit noted\u00a0the PTAB has an obligation to make the necessary\u00a0findings and to provide an administrative record\u00a0showing the evidence on which the findings are based,\u00a0accompanied by the agency\u2019s reasoning in reaching its\u00a0conclusions. \u00a0As for its reasoning, the PTAB must\u00a0articulate \u2018logical and rational\u2019 reasons for its decisions.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Circuit said it could affirm the PTAB&#8217;s findings if it can\u00a0reasonably discern that that the PTAB\u00a0followed a proper path, even if that path is less than<br \/>\nperfectly clear. \u00a0However with respect to the obviousness determination of\u00a0claim 17, the Federal Circuit could not\u00a0reasonably discern that the PTAB\u2019s decision. \u00a0The Federal Circuit complainted that the PTAB&#8217;s narrative<br \/>\nin support of its finding with respect to\u00a0claim 17 consists of a single sentence, which &#8220;does not equate\u00a0to the reasoned explanation needed to support its conclusion.&#8221; \u00a0Thus the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded for additional explanation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In In re Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., 2015-1050, 2015-1058 (August 9, 2016), the Federal Circuit affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remaned, the PTAB&#8217;s decision in IPR2013-00206 and IPR2013-00208 that claims 1\u20138 and\u00a017\u201323 of U.S. Patent No. 8,251,997, were obvious &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1109\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inter-partes-review","category-obviousness"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1110,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions\/1110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}