Court Opinion

ID: 9450618
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 16:53:19.436578+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:32:23.672656
License: Public Domain

RICH, Judge
(concurring).
In view of the opening remarks of Judge Smith’s dissent and because of the unusually long time the decision in this case has been gestating, I merely wish to record the fact that last August I first developed the tentative view that we committed an error of law in Palmquist and became firmly convinced of it and of its exact nature in early October after reviewing the Palmquist record. • I regret that until then I had not fully appreciated the explicit and detailed reliance by the examiner in that case on the existence of a one-year bar and on 35 U.S.C. § 102 (b) as the basis of his rejection.