Legal Opinion
In Re Denis Rouffet, Yannick Tanguy and Frederic Berthault
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided July 15, 1998No. 97-1492PublishedCited by 119 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RADER, Circuit Judge.
Denis Rouffet, Yannick Tanguy, and Fréd-éric Bethault (collectively, Rouffet) submitted application 07/888,791 (the application) on May 27, 1992. The Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (the Board) affirmed final rejection of the application as obvious under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a). See Ex parte Rouffet, No. 96-1553 (Bd. Pat.App. & Int. Apr. 16, 1997). Because the Board reversibly erred in identifying a motivation to combine the references, this court reverses.
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