Legal Opinion
In Re Comiskey
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided September 20, 2007No. 2006-1286. Serial No. 09/461,742PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DYK, Circuit Judge.
Appellant Stephen W. Comiskey (“Com-iskey”) appeals the decision of the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (“Board”) affirming the examiner’s rejection of claims 1-59 of his patent application as obvious in view of the prior art and therefore unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 103. We do not reach the Board’s obviousness rejection of the independent claims under § 103 because we conclude that Comiskey’s independent claims 1 and 32 and most of their dependent claims are unpatentable subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101. We conclude that independent claims 17 and 46 (and…
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