Legal Opinion
In Re Donald H. Thorpe
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided November 21, 1985No. Appeal 85-1913PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PAULINE NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.
We affirm the judgment of the United States Patent and Trademark Office Board of Appeals (the Board), which upheld the examiner’s rejection of product-by-process claims 44, 45, 46, and 47 of U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 132,739 of Donald H. Thorpe et al. (Thorpe), filed March 24, 1980 for “Improved Process for Metal-Modified Phenolic Novolac Resin”.
Background
The invention relates generally to color developers in carbonless copy paper systems. Such systems include a top sheet having microcapsules of a color-former coated on its back, and a copy sheet coated…
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