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Federal Circuit Holds a ‘Similar Enough’ Claim Construction Doesn’t Violate the APA

In Hamilton Beach Brands v. F’Real Foods, the Federal Circuit found that under the Administrative Procedure Act, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s adopted claim construction in an IPR need not be identical to a construction proposed by a party so long as the construction is “similar enough” to provide notice for the parties to argue for or against the construction.