Legal Opinion
In Re John R. Fritch
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided August 11, 1992No. 91-1318PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDWARD S. SMITH, Senior Circuit Judge.
John R. Fritch (Fritch) appeals the 27 February 1991 decision of the Patent and Trademark Office Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (Board) affirming-in-part the Examiner’s final rejection of the remaining claims in Fritch’s application entitled Landscape Edging Apparatus and Method. 1 The Examiner concluded that Fritch’s invention would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art and was therefore unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 103. The Board, except for allowing claim 28, agreed. The Board’s decision is reversed.
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