Legal Opinion
C.W. Zumbiel Co. v. Kappos
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided December 27, 2012No. 2011-1332, 2011-1333PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge WALLACH.
Opinion dissenting-in-part filed by Circuit Judge PROST.
WALLACH, Circuit Judge.
This appeal arises out of the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (“PTO”) inter partes reexamination of United States Patent No. 6,715,639 (“the '639 patent”), assigned to Graphic Packaging International, Inc. (“Graphic”), and challenged by third-party requester C.W. Zumbiel Co., Inc. (“Zumbiel”). Because the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences’s (“Board”)1 obviousness and nonobviousness determinations were correct, they are affirmed.
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