Case: Patents/Obviousness (P.T.A.B.)

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board said that challenged claims of Miracor Medical SA’s patent that provides a device to assist the performance of a heart with at least one pump that is formed as a rotary pump and driven via a magneto coupling aren’t unpatentable as obvious over prior art, in an inter partes review by Abbott Laboratories. The board found that the challenged claims aren’t obvious over various combinations of prior art, including prior art that relates to continuous flow pumps of rotary design suitable for permanent implantation in humans for use as chronic ventricular assist devices, and ...