Legal Opinion

In Re Gary E. GEIGER

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Decided April 1, 1987No. Appeal 86-1103PublishedCited by 52 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

ARCHER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (board), Appeal No. 606-09, affirming the examiner’s rejection of all remaining claims, 43-63 and 65-67, in appellant’s patent application, Serial Number 373,903 (’903), under 35 U.S.C. § 103. We reverse.

OPINION

Background

The ’903 application, filed on May 3, 1982, is directed to a method of inhibiting scale formation on and corrosion of metallic parts in cooling water systems by use of compositions containing (1) a sulfonated styrene/maleic…

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