Legal Opinion
Plasmart, Inc. v. Kappos.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided May 22, 2012No. 2011-1570UnpublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
LOURIE, Circuit Judge.
PlaSmart, Inc. (“PlaSmart”) appeals from the Board’s allowance of claims 1 and 20-33 of Wang and Gu’s U.S. Patent 6,722,674 (the “'674 patent”) during inter partes reexamination. Because the Board erred both in reversing the examiner’s rejection of representative claim 1 as obvious and in affirming the examiner’s allowance of claims 20-33 as patentable, we reverse.
BACKGROUND
The '674 patent describes a safety improvement for a scooter, in particular a safety wheel added to help prevent the scooter from flipping over.
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’674 patent, Figs. 4, 5. The…
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