Ex parte TSAI

2 Cited authorities

  1. In re Fine

    837 F.2d 1071 (Fed. Cir. 1988)   Cited 69 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Reversing the Board's determination that dependent claims were invalid because "[d]ependent claims are nonobvious under section 103 if the independent claims from which they depend are nonobvious."
  2. In re Dow Chemical Co.

    837 F.2d 469 (Fed. Cir. 1988)   Cited 58 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Stating that the "five to six years of research that preceded the claimed invention" was entitled to fair evidentiary weight in a determination of nonobviousness