Legal Opinion

In Re Lonnie T. Spada and Joseph J. Wilczynski

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Decided August 10, 1990No. 90-1109PublishedCited by 56 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

PAULINE NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.

The decision of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (the PTO) Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (the Board), rejecting claims 2 through 25 and 27 through 31, all the claims at issue of Spada and Wilczynski (hereinafter Spada) patent application Serial No. 859,057, filed May 2, 1986 and entitled “Pressure Sensitive Adhesives and Manufactured Articles”, is affirmed.

The Invention

The Spada invention is a pressure sensitive adhesive composition comprising a water-based latex containing a normally tacky copolymer made from specified classes and…

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