Legal Opinion
In Re David H. Fine
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided January 26, 1988No. 87-1319PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MAYER, Circuit Judge.
David H. Fine appeals from a decision of the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (Board) affirming the rejection of certain claims of his application, Serial No. 512,374, and concluding that his invention would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art and was therefore unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 103. We reverse.
BACKGROUND
A. The Invention.
The invention claimed is a system for detecting and measuring minute quantities of nitrogen compounds. According to Fine, the system has the ability to detect…
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