Legal Opinion
In Re GPAC Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided October 24, 1995No. 93-1216PublishedCited by 142 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDWARD S. SMITH, Senior Circuit Judge.
GPAC, Inc., assignee of United States Patent No. 4,604,111 (the ’111 patent), appeals the decision of the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (Board) dated January 26,1993 affirming the examiner’s final rejection of claims 1-43, in a second reexamination of the 111 patent, for obviousness under 35 U.S.C. § 103 (1988). We affirm the Board’s rejection of claims 1-43, with certain modifications involving the Whitfield reference which was relied upon by the examiner.
Background
On August 5, 1986 the ’111 patent was issued…
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