United States Federal Circuit

In a patent dispute concerning shoe soles, rejection of plaintiffs utility patent is affirmed where the invention claimed would have been obvious under 35 U.S.C. section 103(a).

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/02/2004
• Published 12/02/2004

Judges

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

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Garth E. Janke, Birdwell & Janke, of Portland, Oregon, for appellants., John M. Whealan, Solicitor, United States Patent and Trademark Office, of Arlington, Virginia, for the Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.   With him on the brief were W. Asa Hutchinson III, Attorney-Advisor, and William LaMarca, Associate Solicitor.