Legal Opinion
In Re Joseph Borden
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided September 17, 1996No. 96-1057PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRYSON, Circuit Judge.
Joseph Borden appeals from a decision of the Patent and Trademark Office Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, which sustained the examiner’s rejection of Borden’s application for a design patent as obvious under 35 U.S.C. § 103. We affirm.
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Borden filed a patent application on August 15, 1989, claiming an “Ornamental Design for a Twin Neck Dispensing Container.” The claimed design is reproduced below in Figure 1.
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The claimed design comprises an oval-shaped main chamber with a cylindrical spout extending upward from one end, a cubical measuring chamber…
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