United States Federal Circuit

In an inventor's appeal of a reexamination, rejection of all claims of a process patent for the polymerization of certain unsaturated hydrocarbons is affirmed where substantial evidence supported the rejection of the claims based on obviousness-type double patenting.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/13/2008
• Published 11/13/2008

Judges

• Before NEWMAN, LOURIE, and LINN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Warren K. MacRae, Loeb & Loeb LLP, of New York, NY, argued for appellant., Thomas W. Krause, Associate Solicitor, Office of the Solicitor, United States Patent and Trademark Office, of Arlington, VA, argued for the Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.   With him on the brief was Heather F. Auyang, Associate Solicitor.   Of counsel were Sydney O. Johnson, Jr., Acting Solicitor, Shannon M. Hansen, and Janet A. Gongola, Associate Solicitors.