Legal Opinion
In re Hogan
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided July 28, 1977No. Patent Appeal No. 76-641PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARKEY, Chief Judge.
This appeal is from the decision of the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Board of Appeals affirming various rejections, under 35 U.S.C. §§ 102, 103, 112 (first paragraph), and 132, of claims 13-15 in appellants’ application No. 181,185 filed September 16,1971 (the 1971 application) for “Solid Polymers of Olefins.”1 A main issue involves use of a “later state of the art” as evidence to support a rejection.
The 1971 application is said to be a continuation of application No. 648,364 filed June 23,1967 (the 1967 application), in turn a “divisional” of application No. 558,530…
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- In re WertheimCourt of Customs and Patent Appeals · 1976
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