Legal Opinion
In Re Josephus J.M. Braat
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided June 28, 1991No. 90-1470PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RICH, Circuit Judge.
Braat appeals from the May 30, 1990 decision of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (Board), Appeal No. 90-0971, affirming the rejection of claims 8-10, 13, and 15-17 of application Serial No. 569,546 (Braat), filed January 10, 1984, entitled “Record Carrier with Optically Readable Phase Structure and Apparatus for Reading,” on the grounds of obviousness-type double patenting in view of commonly-assigned U.S. Patent No. 4,209,-804 (Dil). We reverse.
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