Legal Opinion
In Re Carl D. Clay
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided June 10, 1992No. 91-1402PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOURIE, Circuit Judge.
Carl D. Clay appeals the decision of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, Appeal No. 90-2262, affirming the rejection of claims 1-11 and 13 as being unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 103. These are all the remaining claims in application Serial No. 245,083, filed April 28, 1987, entitled “Storage of a Refined Liquid Hydrocarbon Product.” We reverse.
BACKGROUND
Clay’s invention, assigned to Marathon Oil Company, is a process for storing refined liquid hydrocarbon product in a storage tank having a dead volume between the…
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