United States Federal Circuit

The Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences properly found no interference-in-fact between plaintiff's patent application and defendants' patent for antibodies, and properly rejected six claims of the application as anticipated by two forms of prior art under 35 U.S.C. section 102(b).

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/20/2004
• Published 01/20/2004

Judges

• GAJARSA, Circuit Judge., Before CLEVENGER, BRYSON, and GAJARSA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• E. Anthony Figg,Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, of Washington, DC, argued for appellant.   With him on the brief was Glenn E. Karta.


• For Appellees:
  
• James F. Haley, Jr., Fish & Neave, of New York, NY, argued for appellees.   With him on the brief were Margaret A. Pierri and Jane T. Gunnison.   Of counsel on the brief was John P. White, Cooper & Dunham LLP, of New York, NY. Of counsel was Stanley Den-Kua Liang, Fish & Neave.