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In Re American Academy of Science Tech Center

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Decided May 13, 2004No. 03-1531PublishedCited by 63 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BRYSON, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision of the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences in a reexamination proceeding, Appeal No.2003-0349. The Board upheld a patent examiner’s rejection, in reexamination, of several claims of U.S. Patent No. 4,714,989 (“the '989 patent”). The owner of the patent, American Academy of Science Tech Center, seeks review of the Board’s decision. We affirm.

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