Article: Federal Circuit Court of Appeals Reverses District Court and Finds Six Align Technology Patent Claims to be Obvious.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Align Technology, Inc. , the inventor of Invisalign(R), a proprietary method of straightening teeth without wires or brackets, learned today that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) has declared two out of a total of seventy-one claims in Align's US Patent No. 6,398,548 (the '548 patent) and four out of a total of ten claims in US Patent No. 6,544,611 (the '611 patent) to be invalid as "obvious." The CAFC's decision reverses an earlier California District Court decision that upheld the validity of these claims in a patent infringement suit between Ormco Corporation and Align.

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