USA: Vicor Corp. v. SynQor, Inc., United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit, No. 2014-1578, 13 March 2015
Nine claims of a SynQor patent for a high efficiency power converter were anticipated by the combination of two prior art references that taught DC-to-DC power converters for pulsed loads, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled (Vicor Corp. v. SynQor, Inc., March 13, 2015, Clevenger, R.). Because the combined references…