Legal Opinion

In Re Jacques Gosteli, Ivan Ernest and Robert B. Woodward

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Decided July 6, 1989No. 88-1611PublishedCited by 71 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BISSELL, Circuit Judge.

DECISION

The decision of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (Board), Appeal No. 665-18 (June 30, 1988), affirming the examiner’s final rejection of claims 48-51 in the patent application, Serial No. 423,-348, of Jacques Gosteli, Ivan Ernest and Robert B. Woodward [hereinafter Gosteli or Applicants], under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) (1982), is affirmed.

BACKGROUND

Gosteli’s patent application discloses bi-cyclic thia-aza compounds containing a beta-lactam ring unsubstituted in the beta-position and having antibiotic…

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