( October 22, 2026, 1:37 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Google LLC failed to show that 23 claims of a patent related to technology designed to merge search results were unpatentable, a Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled, affirming a decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and rejecting Google’s attempt to point to a patent application filed five weeks earlier as well as a three-week gap between when the last inventor signed his oath and the filing of the patent application....