Legal Opinion
In Re Karl Ziegler and Heinz Martin
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided June 29, 1993No. 91-1430PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARCHER, Circuit Judge.
Karl Ziegler and Heinz Martin (together Ziegler) appeal from the June 10, 1991 decision of the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (board), sustaining the rejection of claims 37- and 38, the only claims remaining in United States patent application Serial No. 07/108,524, filed October 15,1987 as a continuation of United States patent application Serial No. 03/514,068. We affirm.
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This case concerns polypropylene, a polymer of propylene molecules. 2 On August 3, 1954, Ziegler filed in Germany a patent application, Z 4348 IVc/39c (the…
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- Wagoner v. BargerCourt of Customs and Patent Appeals · 1972
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