Case: Patents/Procedure (Fed. Cir.)

The Federal Circuit affirmed the decision of the federal district court in the District of Columbia for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on the affirmative defense of prosecution laches, on an inventor’s applications for four patents on computer technology, as well the district court’s determination that it lacked Article III jurisdiction over certain pending claims. The appeals court found no abuse of discretion in the district court’s judgment for the PTO, and held that the inventor failed to establish that he was injured by the board’s reversal of the examiner’s rejection of certain pending claims.