Legal Opinion
In re Swartz
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided November 8, 2002No. 02-1240PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Per curiam
Mitchell R. Swartz appeals from the decision of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (“Board”), Appeal No. 1998-2593, affirming the examiner’s final rejection of claims 13, 14, 21, 22, and 24-39 of application Serial No. 08/406,457 for lack of operability or utility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 and for lack of enablement under 35 U.S.C. § 112, ¶ 1. We affirm the Board’s decision.1
“The question of whether a specification provides an enabling disclosure under § 112, ¶ 1, and whether an application satisfies the utility requirement of § 101 are…
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