Legal Opinion
In Re: Cree, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided March 21, 2016No. 2015-1365PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRYSON, Circuit Judge.
This is an- appeal from a decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in an ex parte reexamination proceeding. The Board held various claims of a patent owned by Cree, Inc., to be unpatentable as obvious. We affirm.
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The patent in suit, Cree’s U.S. Patent No. 6,600,175 (“the 175 patent”), filed in 1996, is entitled “Solid State White Light Emitter and Display Using Same.” The claims at issue in this appeal are directed to the production of white light through the “down-conversion” of blue light from light-emitting diodes (“LEDs”). Down-conversion is the process in which…
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