Legal Opinion
In Re Lovin
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided July 22, 2011No. 2010-1499PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DYK, Circuit Judge.
Appellants Jeff Lovin, Robert Adams, Dan Kuruzar, and Dietmar Spindler 1 (collectively “Lovin”) appeal a decision of the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (“Board”) insofar as that decision held that claims 1-15, 17-24, and 30-34 of U.S. Patent Application No. 10/924,633 (the “'633 application”) would have been obvious. See Ex parte Lovin, No. 2009-007018 (B.P.A.I. Feb. 25, 2010) {“Board Decision ”). We affirm.
Background
On August 24, 2004, Lovin filed the '633 application directed to “a method and system of friction welding.” J.A. 103. In friction welding, a first…
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