Legal Opinion
Chemcast Corporation v. Arco Industries Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided September 4, 1990No. 90-1078PublishedCited by 104 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MAYER, Circuit Judge.
Chemcast Corporation appeals the judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan that Claim 6 of United States Patent No. 4,081,-879 (’879 patent), the only claim in suit, is invalid because of the inventor’s failure to disclose the best mode as required by 35 U.S.C. § 112. See 12 USPQ2d 2005 (1989). We affirm.
Background
The ’879 patent claims a sealing member in the form of a grommet or plug button that is designed to seal an opening in, for example, a sheet metal panel. Claim 6, the only claim in suit, depends from Claim 1.
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