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· 6/12/1997

Jerry Gechter, Robert L. Pokress, Jeffrey A. Fried, and G. Wayne Andrews v. Wayne A. Davidson and Diana S. Winter

Citations

  • 116 F.3d 1454
  • 43 U.S.P.Q. 2d (BNA) 1030
  • 1997 U.S. App. LEXIS 14073
  • 1997 WL 318030

How courts have described this case

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  • explaining that the board’s reasoning must be set out with sufficient specificity to enable this court, “without resort to speculation,” to effectively evaluate an anticipation rejection
  • holding Case: 22-1230 Document: 32 Page: 8 Filed: 05/10/2023 8 IN RE: UNIVERSAL ELECTRONICS, INC. that “the Board’s opinion lacks the level of specificity nec- essary for [] review” because the Board’s decision addressed only one of several limitations in the claim
  • vacating and remanding where the Board’s opinion, inter alia, lacked a claim construction
  • in an interference, remanding to the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences for lack of a claim construction analysis as well as conclusory anticipation findings
  • “Necessary findings must be expressed with sufficient particularity to enable our court, without resort to speculation, to understand the reasoning of the Board.”
  • “The same rule governs when a conclusion on a crucial issue of law is omitted.”

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Judges: Lourie, Michel, Schall

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