The Patent Trial and Appeal Board determined that challenged claims of Essity Hygiene and Health AB’s patent that describes an absorbent article are unpatentable as anticipated by and obvious over prior art, in an inter partes review by First Quality Retail Services LLC, First Quality Consumer Products LLC, First Quality Products LLC, and First Quality Enterprises LLC. The board said that the challenged claims are anticipated by and obvious over various combinations of prior art, including prior art that discloses an absorbent article having an absorbent core, an absorbent article with excellent excretory fluid absorbency, and an absorbent article with ...
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