Legal Opinion
In Re Robert T. Bass
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided December 17, 2002No. 02-1046; Reexamination 90/004, 127 and 90/004, 403PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MAYER, Chief Judge.
Robert T. Bass appeals the decision of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, Ex parte Bass, 1999 WL 33205690, No. 98-2721 (Feb. 10, 1999), affirming the examiner’s rejection of claims 1-4 as obvious under 35 U.S.C. § 103 (2000). We affirm.
Background
Bass is the owner of United States Patent No. 4,473,026 (“the ’026 patent”) directed to a fishing boat. In January of 1996, a third party requested a reexamination (Control No. 90/004,127), citing United States Design Patent No. 219,891 to William Cargile (“Cargile”), several…
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