Legal Opinion
Jeffrey R. Sewall and Ronald G. Walters v. Ronald G. Walters
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided May 19, 1994No. 93-1230PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RICH, Circuit Judge.
Sewall, et. al. (Sewall)' appeals from the December 11, 1992, decision of the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (Board)' of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), awarding the subject matter of the sole count in issue to Ronald G. Walters on the basis that he is the sole inventor of that subject matter. Consistent with our discussion below, we affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
A. The Count
The count is directed to an apparatus for back projecting data provided by a computer tomography (CT) scanner or other object image scanner into an image matrix location. 1 The…
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