Legal Opinion
In Re Anita Dembiczak and Benson Zinbarg
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided April 28, 1999No. 98-1498PublishedCited by 86 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLEVENGER, Circuit Judge.
■ Anita Dembiezak and Benson Zinbarg appeal the rejection, upheld by the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, of all pending claims in their Application No. 08/427,732. See Ex Parte Dembiczak, No. 96-2648, slip op. at 43 (May 14, 1998). Because the Board erred in sustaining rejections of the pending claims as obvious under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) (Supp.1998), and for obviousness-type double patenting, we reverse.
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