Not Quite Teaching Away: Federal Circuit Clarifies Evidence Needed to Defeat Motivation to Combine

by Dennis Crouch

In a recent non-precedential decision, the Federal Circuit provided an interesting analysis on how to evaluate evidence both supporting and undermining motivation to combine references in obviousness challenges. Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings v. Ravgen, Inc., No. 2023-1342, 2023-1345 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 6, 2025).


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