Legal Opinion
In Re Donaldson Company, Inc
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided February 14, 1994No. 91-1386PublishedCited by 178 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RICH, Circuit Judge.
The Donaldson Company (Donaldson) appeals from the January 30, 1991 decision of the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (Board) of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), reaffirmed on reconsideration on April 17, 1991, sustaining the Examiner’s rejection of claim 1 of reexamination application Serial No. 90/001,776 1 (Schuler application) under 35 U.S.C. § 103. We reverse.
I. BACKGROUND
A. The Invention
The present invention relates to industrial air-filtering devices often referred to as “dust collectors.” Fig. 2 of the Schuler application is reproduced…
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