Legal Opinion

In Re Daniel Bartfeld, Shmaryahu Blumberg, Marian Gorecki, Dan Hadary and Menachem Zeevi

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Decided February 20, 1991No. 90-1376PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

RICH, Circuit Judge.

Bartfeld et al. (hereinafter “Bartfeld”) appeal from the March 30, 1990 decision of the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (Board), reported at 16 USPQ2d 1714, affirming the PTO examiner’s rejection of claims 1-12 and 14-45 of application Serial No. 06/734,450 (the ’450 application), 1 titled “Method for Recovering Purified Growth Hormones From Genetically Engineered Microorganisms,” as obvious under 35 U.S.C. § 103. As detailed below, two rejections are appealed, one being “provisional” in nature. We decline to address the…

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3Cited by4 opinions

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