Fed. Cir. Declines to Rehear Cisco-VirnetX Row After PTO Ask (1)

The Federal Circuit declined to rehear its decision to vacate and remand a patent office tribunal’s ruling on Cisco Systems Inc.'s challenge of VirnetX’s patent.

The dispute is similar to other patent cases that the court recently sent back due to new considerations surrounding the constitutionality of patent judges’ appointments, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said in its decision.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Cisco had asked the court to reconsider its January order to send the case back to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board because the patent review process in the ...