Legal Opinion
In Re Leonard Kaplan and Wellington Epler Walker
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided May 6, 1986No. Appeal 85-2522PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RICH, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is from the decision of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (board) rejecting, under 37 CFR 1.196(b), the single claim of appellants’ application serial No. 364,221, filed April 1, 1982, entitled “Homogeneous Liquid Phase Process for Making Alkane Polyols,” on the sole ground of “double patenting, because it constitutes an improper extension of monopoly for an invention claimed by Kaplan.” We reverse.
Background
The Kaplan and Walker application at bar and the cited Kaplan patent, No. 3,944,-588, issued…
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