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Appellate Court Says a Motivation to Combine References Need Not Always Be Explicit

A recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Realtime Data, LLC v. Iancu (Fed. Cir. 2019) affirmed the Patent and Trial Appeal Board’s (Board) finding that RealTime’s data compression patent was obvious over two references, despite failing to explicitly identify a reason to combine the references.
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