Common Sense Cannot Supply Missing Limitation in Obviousness Analysis: Fed. Cir. | Practical Law
In Arendi S.A.R.L. v. Apple Inc., the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)'s decision, holding that the PTAB erred in presuming that the common sense of a person of skill in the art would have made it obvious to supply a claim limitation missing from the prior art.