Fed. Cir. Provides Insight on Conditional Features

In Sierra Wireless v. Sisvel S.P.A ., Appeals 2023-1059, -1085, -1089, -1125 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 10, 2025), the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded a PTAB decision that had found claims 1, 2, and 6-8 of U.S. Patent No. 7,869,396 (&ldquo;the &rsquo;396 patent&rdquo;) obvious. In particular, the Federal Circuit found that the features in claim 1 of the &rsquo;396 patent were not conditional, and gave…