Legal Opinion
EnOcean GmbH v. Face International Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided January 31, 2014No. 2012-1645PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PROST, Circuit Judge.
EnOcean GmbH (“EnOcean”) appeals from an order of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”), Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (“Board”), finding all of EnOcean’s claims involved in Patent Interference No. 105,755 with Face International Corporation (“Face”) unpat-entable over a combination of prior art that includes PCT Application No. PCT/ GB01/00901 to Burrow (“Burrow reference”). See J.A. 50. Because the Board erred in treating certain EnOcean claims as means-plus-function claims and in finding that certain EnOcean claim limitations lack support in its…
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