Legal Opinion
In Re Berwyn E. Etter
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided February 27, 1985No. 84-1213PublishedCited by 97 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*854MARKEY, Chief Judge.
Appeal from a decision of the Board of Appeals (board) of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) affirming the examiner’s final rejection in a reexamination proceeding of claims 1 through 9, all of the claims of United States Patent No. 4,133,034 (the ’034 patent), issued January 2, 1979 to Berwyn E. Etter, as nonpatenta-ble under 35 U.S.C. § 103 in view of prior art. We affirm.
Background
The ’034 patent concerns a method and device for assimilating utility meter data at meter locations. Anthony Goodfellow, who had applied for and been refused a license under…
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