Legal Opinion
In Re Joyce A. Cortright
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided April 20, 1999No. 98-1258PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MAYER, Chief Judge.
Joyce A. Cortright appeals the September 23 and November 28, 1997, decisions of the United States Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences sustaining the rejection of claims 1 and 15 of patent application Serial No. 07/849,191 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, ¶ 1 (1994). Because the board erred with respect to claim 1 but not claim 15, we affirm-in-part, reverse-in-part, and remand.
Background. Cortright’s patent application, filed in 1992, concerns a method of treating baldness by applying Bag Balm®, a commercially available product used to soften cow udders, to human scalp. Claims…
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