( June 12, 2026, 9:43 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed a U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) finding that all claims of a woman’s patents describing a system for recovering a stolen computer challenged by Google LLC and Microsoft Corp. were unpatentable as obvious; the panel also dismissed the woman’s challenge to PTAB’s refusal to revisit the institution of inter partes review (IPR) proceedings for an alleged stipulation violation, finding that this challenge was barred from judicial review....