Legal Opinion

In Re Thomas P.H. Warmerdam and Bernard J.H. Verwer

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Decided August 11, 1994No. 93-1294PublishedCited by 18 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

PLAGER, Circuit Judge.

Thomas P.H. Warmerdam and Bernard J.H. Verwer (collectively Warmerdam or appellants) appeal the January 28, 1993 decision of the Patent and Trademark Office Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (Board), Appeal No. 92-3680. The Board affirmed the rejection of claims pending in U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 07/430,749 (the ’749 application) in part for lack of statutory subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101 (1988), and in part for indefiniteness under 35 U.S.C. § 112 ¶ 2 (1988). We affirm-in-part and reverse-in-part.

BACKGROUND

Warmerdam filed the ’749 application…

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