United States Federal Circuit

In a dispute involving a patent claim concerning a method and system of friction welding, judgment of Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences on grounds of obviousness is affirmed where Board reasonably interpreted 37 C.F.R. section 41.37(c)(1)(vii) to require more substantive arguments in an appellant's appeal brief than a mere recitation of the claim elements and a naked assertion that the corresponding elements were not found in the prior art.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/22/2011
• Published 07/22/2011

Judges

• DYK

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel