The Federal Circuit vacated the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's obviousness determination based on an erroneous construction of the claimed expression "treating a subject having onychomycosis."
According to the CAFC, the Board's construction was inconsistent with the prosecution history (including statements made to overcome a rejection) and statements in the specification (including some relating to the object of the invention) which supported a narrower interpretation.
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