Federal Circuit Holds Yellow Bean Patent Obvious and Invalid By Dmitriy Tishyevich – Edited by Jad Mills In re POD-NERS, L.L.C., July 10, 2009, No. 2008-1492 (nonprecedential) Slip Opinion On July 10, 2009 in a per curium decision, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (“Board”) decision invalidating the patent claims for a yellow bean of Mexican origin. The court held that the applicant failed ...
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