United States Federal Circuit
In re Applied Materials, Inc., 11-1461
The decisions of the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences affirming the examiner's rejections of petitioner's claims of patents covering polishing pads for chemical mechanical polishing is affirmed, as the Board's determination of obviousness, that the prior art did not teach away from the invention claimed in petitioner's patents and that there was insufficient evidence of commercial success to outweigh the evidence of obviousness, was supported by sufficient evidence,
Appellate Information
- Decided 08/29/2012
- Published 08/29/2012
Judges
- Linn
Court
- United States Federal Circuit