Legal Opinion
Richard Ruiz and Foundation Anchoring Systems, Inc. v. A.B. Chance Company
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided January 29, 2004No. 03-1333PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RADER, Circuit Judge.
On remand from this court’s decision in Ruiz v. A.B. Chance Company, 234 F.3d 654 (Fed.Cir.2000), the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri found defendant-appellant A.B. Chance Company’s (Chance) patented underpinning system obvious under 35 U.S.C. § 103. Because the district court made no clear error in its factual determinations concerning the motivation to combine the prior art teachings and the merit of Chance’s asserted secondary considerations, this court affirms.
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Since about 1970, Chance has manufactured screw anchors, also called…
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