Dome Patent L.P. v. Lee, No. 14-1673 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 3, 2015)

From the Opinion

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Dome owns a patent for making contact-lens material. On reexamination, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office found that the claimed method at issue was obvious and therefore unpaten table. The district court agreed with the Patent Office that the claimed method was unpaten t- able. On appeal, Dome challenges both the standard of review employed by the district court and the court’s ultimate conclusion on obviousness.