Legal Opinion
In Re Basell Poliolefine Italia S.P.A.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided November 13, 2008No. 2007-1450PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the court filed by LOURIE, Circuit Judge. Dissenting opinion filed by NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.
LOURIE, Circuit Judge.
Basell Poliolefine Italia, S.P.A. (“Basell”) appeals from two decisions of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (“Board”) resulting from a Director-ordered reexamination of U.S. Patent 6,365,687 (“the '687 patent”). The Board affirmed the rejections of all the claims of the '687 patent as unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. §§ 102(b) and 103(a) and the doctrine of obviousness-type double patenting. Because the Board…
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