Federal Circuit Agrees Vascular Port Patent Claims Invalid As Anticipated

( December 16, 2025, 1:54 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Dec. 15 affirmed a Delaware federal judge’s decision to grant judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) to a defendant entity in a dispute over patents describing a vascular access port product, finding that the judge properly determined that the claims at issue were anticipated by prior art references....