Doctor’s Patent App Survives PTAB’s 2nd Derivation Ruling

By Dani Kass (March 31, 2023, 7:29 PM EDT) — The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has held that a podiatrist’s patent application for a mixture used for such purposes as treating wounds wasn’t derived from another inventor’s work, in the second-ever decision stemming from a rarely used America Invents Act proceeding….