Legal Opinion
In Re John P. Chupp
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided April 15, 1987No. Appeal 86-1631PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARKEY, Chief Judge.
Appeal from a decision of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (board), affirming the examiner’s final rejection of claims 1 and 12 in application Serial No. 358,967 under 35 U.S.C. § 103. We reverse.
BACKGROUND
On March 17, 1982, John P. Chupp (Chupp) filed a continuation-in-part application, assigned to Monsanto Company, entitled “Herbicidal 2-Haloacetanilides.” The application contained 41 claims to a variety of chemical compounds within the generic class of 2-haloacetanilides, a method for using the compounds to…
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