Divided Panel Agrees: Patent Rights Wrongly Extended By Owner

Mealey's (January 23, 2023, 12:54 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A split Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Jan. 20 left intact a Texas federal judge’s determination that a patent covering encryption technology is unenforceable because the patent owner “successfully employed an inequitable scheme to extend its patent rights.”...