Flo Healthcare Solutions, LLC v. Kappos, No. 11-1476 (Fed. Cir. 2012)
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Flo sued Rioux for infringing a patent that describes a mobile computer workstation intended for medical care environments. Rioux then initiated an inter partes reexamination of the patent. The Patent and Trademark Office granted Rioux’s request, finding a substantial new question of patentability with respect to all 44 claims. The district court stayed the infringement suit pending the PTO’s final determination in the reexamination. The parties later agreed to voluntarily dismiss the infringement suit. The Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences ultimately upheld the examiner’s rejections of claims 8-17, 23, 24, 35, 40-42, 73, 76-79, 87, and 88. The Federal Circuit affirmed, reasoning that Flo’s only argument on appeal was that the prior art fails to teach or suggest a length-adjustable vertical beam; the claims on appeal when properly construed, do not require a length-adjustable vertical beam. Flo acknowledged that the prior art rejections must stand in the absence of such a limitation.
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