Legal Opinion
Boyd v. Quigg
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided May 25, 1988No. Civ. A. No. 87-1647PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
GESELL, District Judge.
Invoking the Court’s jurisdiction under 35 U.S.C. § 145, plaintiffs, the named inventors and their assignee Dennison Manufacturing Co. (“Dennison”), seek an order directing the Commissioner of the Patents and Trademarks Office (“PTO”) to issue a patent containing claims 1 to 17 of their patent application, which was first rejected by the examiner and then rejected as obvious in the light of prior art after appeal to the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (“Board”) of the PTO.
At trial, plaintiffs presented some testimony and exhibits to supplement the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Zenith Radio Corporation v. David L. Ladd, Commissioner of PatentsCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1962
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