Vicor Corp. v. SynQor, Inc.

SynQor owns several patents directed to a particular architecture for direct current-to-direct current (DC-DC) power converters. Vicor requested, and the Patent and Trademark Office granted, inter partes reexaminations of the SynQor Patents. The Patent Trial and Appeal Board concluded that certain claims were patentable over prior art combinations proposed by Vicor but that that certain claims in another patent were unpatentable as anticipated or obvious. In a consolidated appeal, the Federal Circuit affirmed in part and vacated in part, finding that, despite sharing a common panel and having opinions issued on the same date, the decisions in the respective reexaminations contained inconsistent findings on identical issues and on essentially the same record. The conflicting findings were unsupported by any rational explanation in either of the Board’s decisions. View "Vicor Corp. v. SynQor, Inc." on Justia Law