Fameccanica: ‘US Court of Appeals affirms validity of Fameccanica’s patent against challenge by Curt G. Joa, Inc.’




SAN GIOVANNI TEATINO, ITALY, November 14, 2018-

On November 13, 2018, in appeal no. 2018-1297, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“Federal Circuit”) affirmed the Final Written Decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”), affirming the validity of all of the claims of Fameccanica’s U.S. Patent No. 6,994,761, entitled “Disposable Absorbent Garment such as a diaper or training pants and a process of making the same.” 

Before the PTAB and the Federal Circuit, Joa alleged that other patents prior in time to Fameccanica’s U.S. Patent No. 6,994,761 disclosed the invention claimed in Fameccanica’s patent: “a breathable, stretchable layer assembly including an inner material layer, an outer material layer and a stretchable material layer disposed there between and including vent sites which are formed by ultrasonic bonding of the inner and outer material layers through the stretchable material layer”. 


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