Federal Circuit Reverses Examiner’s Anticipation Rejection Based on Examiner’s Belief that Prior Art Structure Inherently Performed Claimed Function
The Federal Circuit recently reversed and remanded an Examiner’s rejection of a claim that involved an element requiring both structural and functional limitations. See In re Chudik, No. 2016-1487 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 9, 2017). Specifically, the Federal Circuit reversed the Examiner’s rejection because the record failed to establish that a single prior art reference contained…