Fed. Circ. Judge Foresees PTAB Win In High Court Case

By Jimmy Hoover

Law360, Washington (June 15, 2016, 6:50 PM ET) -- Predicting the outcome of a pending case before the Supreme Court, Federal Circuit Judge S. Jay Plager said Wednesday that the “smart money” is on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board maintaining its standard for reading patent claims, although the senior jurist admitted the standard rarely makes a difference in cases anyway.

Judge Plager didn’t go into detail on why he believed the court would uphold PTAB’s “broadest reasonable interpretation” test for construing patent claims whe