United States Federal Circuit

A decision of the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences concluding that claims in a patent application involving a reading machine for the blind were unpatentable as obvious is affirmed where the factual findings underlying the Board's conclusion were supported by substantial evidence, and there was no legal error in a conclusion that the claims would have been obvious.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/22/2006
• Published 03/22/2006

Judges

• LINN, Circuit Judge., Before MICHEL, Chief Judge, LINN, and PROST, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Leonard R. Kahn, pro se, of New York, New York., John M. Whealan, Solicitor, Office of the 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 Linda Moncys Isacson and Raymond T. Chen, Associate Solicitors.   Of counsel was Mary L. Kelly.