Legal Opinion
In Re Mouttet
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided June 26, 2012No. 2011-1451PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
REYNA, Circuit Judge.
Mr. Blaise Laurent Mouttet (“Mouttet”) appeals the decision of the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (“Board”) affirming the rejection of all pending patent claims under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a). Substantial evidence supports the Board’s factual determinations, and we agree with the Board’s conclusion that Mouttet’s claimed invention would have been obvious to one having ordinary skill in the art. We therefore affirm.
I. Background
A. Mouttet’s Patent Application
On April 3, 2006, sole inventor Mouttet submitted utility patent application No. 11/395,232 (“the '232…
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