Smith & Nephew, Inc. v. Rea

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that reversal is appropriate where “the facts are largely undis- puted, and the Board’s decision . . . was mainly the result of the analytical errors”
• emphasizing that the board is obliged to “read[ ] the prior art for all that it teaches”
• emphasizing that the board is obliged to “read[] the prior art for all that it teaches”
• reversing the board's non-obviousness determination because it \was mainly the result of ... analytical errors\ and \the facts [were] largely undisputed\
• “[A]n unclaimed and undisclosed feature such as the ‘specialized screw’ cannot be the basis for finding Synthes's patent to be non-obvious over the prior art.”
• “Expert opinions that are contrary to admissions in the specification do not create a factual issue.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).