Legal Opinion
In Re Gilbert P. Hyatt
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided May 12, 2000No. 99-1182PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRYSON, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a decision of the Patent and Trademark Office’s Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. The appellant, Gilbert P. Hyatt, seeks review of the Board’s decision upholding a patent examiner’s action rejecting several claims of Mr. Hyatt’s patent application. We affirm the decision of the Board.
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Mr. Hyatt’s application addresses the problem of defects or faults in certain systems, including illumination systems. In an illumination system using display panels with many display devices, the invention compensates for a defect in one of the devices by…
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