The packed hearing room, which only seats 55 people and was half - filled with lawyers from both sides, often strained to hear the federal patent judges, who focused their questions on two central legal issues: «obviousness» and «reasonable expectation of success.» (sciencemag.org)
The highest - ranking U.S. patent judge has just weakened Apple's position in the EU antitrust proceedings (though he was obviously just concerned with the development of U.S. case law in this area and didn't intend to influence foreign antitrust proceedings). (fosspatents.com)
Administrative Patent Judges Boucher and Wood, who formed the majority of the three - judge panel, wrote a dissent characterizing the reversal as result that «arrogate [s] power beyond that granted by Congress.» (brookskushman.com)