Federal Circuit· 9/24/2013

Rambus Inc. v. Rea

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731 F.3d 1248
108 U.S.P.Q. 2d (BNA) 1400
2013 WL 5312505
2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 19500

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holding that the Board erred when it found objective evidence lacked a nexus where at least some of the evidence related to the “patented design as a whole”
“[O]bjective evidence of nonobviousness lacks a nexus if it exclusively relates to a feature that was known in the prior art.”
“Objective evidence of nonobviousness need only be ‘reasonably commensurate with the scope of the claims,’ and we do not require a patentee to produce objective evidence of nonobviousness for every potential embodiment of the claim.”

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Judges: Moore, Linn, O'Malley

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