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10 minute read March 01, 2026 at 12:03 AM
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Jeffrey Ginsberg and Kaiying Wang
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Federal Circuit: Issue Preclusion Precludes the Board from Reaching the Opposite Conclusion on Patentability



On Jan. 21, 2026, a Federal Circuit panel consisting of Judges Lourie, Reyna, and Chen found in an opinion authored by Judge Reyna that that the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (the Board) erred in finding that Apple Inc.

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