Legal Opinion
In Re Van Geuns
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided March 10, 1993No. 91-1088PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARCHER, Circuit Judge.
Johannes R. Van Geuns appeals from the September 25, 1990 decision of the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (board) in Interference No. 101,855, involving U.S. Patent No. 4,587,504 issued to Ian J. Brown et al. and U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 657,636 filed by Johannes R. Van Geuns. The board held that the claims of Van Geuns’ application that had been designated as corresponding to the interference count were unpatentable for obviousness under 35 U.S.C. § 103 (1988). We affirm.
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