Legal Opinion
In Re George R. Evanega and Winfried Albert
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided September 21, 1987No. 86-1667PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARCHER, Circuit Judge.
George R. Evanega and Winfried Albert (Evanega) appeal the affirmance by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (board) of a patent examiner’s rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 103 (1982 & Supp. 1985) of all eight claims of their application for a patent on a Method for Enzyme Immuno-Determinations in Heterogenous Phase. 1 We reverse.
BACKGROUND
The claimed invention is an improvement in competitive immunoassays used to determine the amount of a specific binding protein in a sample. Such assays are used, for example, to…
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