Legal Opinion

In Re Yujiro Yamamoto, and Dictaphone Corp., Intervenor

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Decided August 7, 1984No. Appeal 84-557PublishedCited by 103 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BALDWIN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a decision of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Board of Appeals (board) in a reexamination proceeding involving U.S. Patent No. 3,747,228 (Yamamoto) issued to appellant, Yamamoto. The board affirmed rejection of claims 1-3, 7, and 8 as unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 103 over U.S. Patent No. 3,300,586 (Shepard) and of claim 4 over Shepard in view of U.S. Patent No. 3,550,-289 (Orita). We affirm.

Procedural History

Appellant filed suit for infringement of the Yamamoto patent in the United States District Court for the Central District…

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