Legal Opinion
In Re Ole K. Nilssen
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided July 13, 1988No. Appeal 88-1240PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NIES, Circuit Judge.
Ole K. Nilssen appeals from the final decision of the United States Patent and Trademark Office Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences in which the board, pur suant to its authority under 37 C.F.R. § 1.196(b) (1987), rejected claims 1-4, 9-11, and 16 of Nilssen’s patent application Serial No. 476,150 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 (1982 & Supp. IV 1986) as unpatentable for obviousness. We affirm.
Background
Nilssen describes the invention of the instant appeal as a “means by which the self-oscillating inverter in a power-line-operated inverter-type fluorescent lamp ballast is…
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