Legal Opinion

In Re Baxter Travenol Labs

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Decided December 30, 1991No. 91-1313PublishedCited by 84 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

LOURIE, Circuit Judge.

Baxter International, Inc. (Baxter) appeals from the February 28, 1991, decision of the United States Patent and Trademark Office Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, Appeal No. 90-2204. The Board affirmed the rejection of claims 1, 3-12,14-16, 20-23, and 29-37, in a reexamination of U.S. Patent 4,222,379 (the Smith patent) as anticipated under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b). The Board also affirmed the rejection of claims 1-24 as obvious under 35 U.S.C. § 103. Claims 25-28 were allowed by the examiner and are not in issue. We affirm.

BACKGROUND

The Smith invention relates to a…

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