Legal Opinion
In Re Patrick H. O'farrell, Barry A. Polisky and David H. Gelfand
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided August 10, 1988No. 87-1486PublishedCited by 126 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RICH, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is from the decision of the United States Patent and Trademark Office Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (board) affirming the patent examiner’s final rejection of patent application Serial No. 180,424, entitled “Method and Hybrid Vector for Regulating Translation of Het-erologous DNA in Bacteria.” The application was rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 on the ground that the claimed invention would have been obvious at the time the invention was made in view of a published paper by two of the three coinventors, and a publication by Bahl, Marians & Wu, 1 Gene…
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