Legal Opinion
In Re: Maatita
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided August 20, 2018No. 2017-2037PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Dyk, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a rejection in initial examination of appellant Ron Maatita's design patent application covering the design of an athletic shoe bottom. The examiner rejected the application's single claim as non-enabled and indefinite under 35 U.S.C. § 112 because it used a single, two-dimensional plan-view drawing to disclose a shoe bottom design and thereby left the design open to multiple interpretations regarding the depth and contour of the claimed elements. The Patent Trial and Appeal Board ("Board") affirmed the examiner's rejection. Because we find the Board…
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