( October 8, 2026, 1:39 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Oct. 7 rejected a petition for panel rehearing from the Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (UT), leaving in place the panel’s July ruling that a technology company was entitled to a judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) in its favor in a dispute over a patent describing a biodegradable fiber implant. The ruling reversed a Delaware federal jury’s findings in favor of the patent holder because a prior art patent disclosed every asserted claim of the patent at issue....