Legal Opinion
Vandenberg v. Dairy Equipment Co.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided July 27, 1984No. Appeal Nos. 83-1400, 83-1420PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SKELTON, Senior Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal under 28 U.S.C. § 1295(a)(1) from a final decision of the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, declaring United States Patent No. 3,962,575 (’575), owned by appellants/cross-appellees Ben W. Vandenberg, August Vandenberg, and Andrew W. Vandenberg (appellants), invalid for obviousness under 35 U.S.C. § 103. The district court denied the request for attorney’s fees of appellee/cross-appellant Dairy Equipment Company (DEC).
We affirm the district court’s determination of invalidity insofar as it concerns Claims 1 and 3…
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