United States Federal Circuit

The US Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences properly sustained the examiner's rejection of several claims of a patent application directed to a real-time thermal management system for computers on the grounds that the claims are obvious. With regard to two other rejected claims, the applicant failed to show harmful Board error.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/15/2004
• Published 01/15/2004

Judges

• DYK, Circuit Judge., Before MICHEL, RADER and DYK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ronald O. Neerings,Texas Instruments Incorporated, of Dallas, TX, argued for appellant LaVaughn F. Watts, Jr. Of counsel on the brief was Jay M. Cantor, Baker Botts L.L.P., of Washington, DC.


• For Appellees:
  
• Joseph G. Piccolo, Associate Solicitor, Office of the Solicitor, of Arlington, VA, argued for appellee Jon Dudas, Acting Director, Patent and Trademark Office.   With him on the brief were John M. Whealan and Thomas W. Krause, Associate Solicitors.