Federal Circuit: District Court Erroneously Found Patent Invalid As Indefinite

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A decision by a District of Columbia federal judge to invalidate two claims of a disputed patent was reversed Jan. 30 by the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, which found that the district court judge misconstrued the claims as including both apparatus and method steps (HTC Corporation and HTC America Inc. v. IPCom GmbH & Co. KG, No. 11-1004, Fed. Cir.). Full story on lexis.com