In re Tropp (Fed. Cir. 2018)

By Donald Zuhn — Today, in In re Tropp, the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded a decision by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board affirming the Examiner's rejection of claims 29-53 of U.S. Application No. 13/412,233 for lack of sufficient written description under 35 U.S.C. § 112. In vacating the Board's determination, the Court found that the Board had erred in its analysis. The claims of the '233 application are directed to a set of locks for securing luggage and methods of using that set of locks, wherein the locks have two components: a combination…

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