Legal Opinion
Jean N. Nicolaou v. Michael Cooperman
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided February 25, 1971No. Patent Appeal 8439PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALMOND, Judge.
This appeal is from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Patent Interferences involving appellant’s application 1 **and appellee’s patent 2 and awarding priority to the junior party, the patentee Cooperman.
The subject matter in the interference relates to solid state display devices having an electroluminescent layer coupled to a layer of ferroelectric material. The ability of the ferro-electric material to distribute an A.C. signal to the electroluminescent layer is based on the impedance characteristic of the material. When a particular voltage, known as the coercive…
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