Legal Opinion
Randall Mfg. v. Rea
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided October 30, 2013No. 2012-1611PublishedCited by 65 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TARANTO, Circuit Judge.
FG Products owns U.S. Patent No. 7,214,017, which is directed to moveable bulkheads for partitioning cargo space in a shipping container. FG’s competitor, Randall Manufacturing, requested inter partes reexamination of the '017 patent, and the Patent and Trademark Office examiner rejected a number of FG’s claims as obvious over a combination of four pri- or-art references. On appeal, the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (now the Patent Trial and Appeal Board) reversed, unable to discern any reason that one of ordinary skill in the art would have been motivated…
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