Law360 (August 13, 2021, 8:32 PM EDT) — The Federal Circuit on Friday gave C.R. Bard Inc. another chance to fight Medline Industries Inc. catheter tray patents at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, saying the board needs to take another look at whether many of the challenged patent claims were invalid.
A three-judge panel partially reversed and partially upheld various decisions from the PTAB not to invalidate a host of claims in three Medline patents: U.S. Patent Nos. 9,745,088; 9,808,596; and 9,795,761.
The panel sent every challenged claim of the ‘088 patent back to the PTAB, finding the board’s analysis of whether those claims were obvious over prior…
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