Legal Opinion
In re Monks
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided December 7, 1978No. Appeal No. 78-603PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LANE, Judge.
This is an appeal from the decision of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Board of Appeals (board) sustaining the examiner’s rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 102(d) of claims 14-25 of application serial No. 561,291, filed March 24, 1975, for “Conveyor Drives,” a continuation of application serial No. 350,785, filed April 13, 1973. We reverse.
Background
A counterpart British patent application, with claims directed to the same invention as the claims before us, was filed in Great Britain by appellant’s assigns on July 21, 1970, more than twelve months before appellant…
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