Court Opinion

ID: 9449098
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 23:56:30.966264+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:31:41.898349
License: Public Domain

WORLEY, Chief Judge
(dissenting).
I agree with the majority regarding counts 1 through 4, but do not agree that count 5 reads on the Meulenberg and Redmond Exhibits 1 and 4.
Count 5 requires “ * * * a resilient body of soft deformable plastic material having a base surrounded by said border frame * * (Italics supplied)
The board interpreted that language as follows:
“ * * * These exhibits do not satisfy ‘the language of the counts’ * * * because these exhibits do not satisfy the limitation of the count ‘having a base surrounded by said border frame’. To surround, requires enclosing completely, encircling, or encompassing. Partially doing so is not ‘surrounding’.”
I can find no error in that reasoning or conclusion.