Legal Opinion
In Re: Smith International, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided September 26, 2017No. 2016-2303PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOURIE, Circuit Judge.
Smith International, Inc. (“Smith”) appeals from a decision of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“the PTO”) Patent and Trial Appeal Board (“the Board”) affirming the examiner’s rejections of claims 28-36, 39-46, 49, 50, 79-81, and 93-100 1 of U.S. Patent 6,732,817 (“the ’817 patent”) in an ex parte reexamination. Ex parte Smith Int'l Inc., No. 2015-008323, 2016 Pat. App. LEXIS 3764 (P.T.A.B. Apr. 29, 2016) {“Board, Decision”). For the reasons that follow, we reverse.
Background
This ease primarily concerns what the word “body” means in the context of the ’817…
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