Court Opinion

ID: 9495125
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 15:54:53.512159+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:56:49.403957
License: Public Domain

Dissenting opinion filed by Chief Judge MAYER.
MAYER, Chief Judge,
dissenting-in-part.
Because Steven McDaniel affirmatively stated that “claims 53-64 are all properly of a single group” and stand or fall together, I respectfully dissent from Part III of the court’s opinion. McDaniel is the master of his own case, Air Products and Chemicals v. Reichhold Chemicals, Inc., 755 F.2d 1559, 1562, 225 USPQ 121, 123 (Fed.Cir.1985), and in stating that claims 53-64 stand or fall together, he has waived any argument that claims 55-57 are patentable for reasons independent of claim 53. Therefore, I would hold him to his position, as the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences did.