REVERSED

1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
Ex Parte Wise et al LEBOVITZ 112(2)/112(1)/103(a) NUTTER MCCLENNEN & FISH LLP
vaccine composition for inducing an immune response to a pathogen
Mikos 6,689,608 Feb. 10, 2004
The requirements for obtaining a patent are not the same as those for securing government approval to market a drug for human use. In re Brana, 51 F.3d 1560, 1567 (Fed. Cir. 1995).

3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
Ex Parte Casati et al CRAWFORD 103(a) HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY
systems and methods for investigating business processes
Marpe 6,671,693 B1 Dec. 30, 2003
Inherency, however, may not be established by probabilities or possibilities. The mere fact that a certain thing may result from a given set of circumstances is not sufficient. In re Robertson, 169 F.3d 743, 745 (Fed. Cir. 1999).

Ex Parte Raley et al TURNER 103(a) NIXON PEABODY, LLP
method and system for distribution and display of protected documents utilizing a standard rendering engine of an application program, such as a browser
Teper et al. 5,815,665 Sept. 29, 1998
Patel 2002/0004900 A1 Jan. 10, 2002

Ex Parte Guler et al MOHANTY 103(a) HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY
automated decision support for designing auctions
Lupien 5,101,353 Mar. 31, 1992
Shoham 6,285,989 B1 Sep. 4, 2001
Phillips 6,792,399 B1 Sep. 14, 2004
Szabo 6,868,525 B1 Mar. 15, 2005
Seymour 6,871,190 B1 Mar. 22, 2005

BILSKI - AFFIRMED

2400 Networking, Mulitplexing, Cable, and Security
Ex Parte Cherian et al MACDONALD 101/103(a) AT & T Legal Department - BHGL
creating a computer usable description of XML message sequencing in the form of one or more protocol graphs, and verifying that messages exchanged among two or more protocol participants are valid paths in the protocol verification paths
Welter 6,138,157 Oct. 24, 2000
Banerjee 6,915,456 Jul. 05, 2005
[T]he Court has held that a claim is not a patent-eligible "process" if it claims "laws of nature, natural phenomena, [or] abstract ideas." Diamond v. Diehr, 450 U.S. 175, 185 (1981) (citing Flook, 437 U.S. at 589, and Gottschalk v. Benson, 409 U.S. 63, 67 (1972)). Such fundamental principles [as "laws of nature, natural phenomena, and abstract ideas”] are "part of the storehouse of knowledge of all men . . . free to all men and reserved exclusively to none." Funk Bros. Seed Co. v. Kalo Inoculant Co., 333 U.S. 127, 130 (1948); see also Le Roy v. Tatham, 55 U.S. (14 How.) 156, 175 (1852) ("A principle, in the abstract, is a fundamental truth; an original cause; a motive; these cannot be patented, as no one can claim in either of them an exclusive right."). "Phenomena of nature, though just discovered, mental processes, and abstract intellectual concepts are not patentable, as they are the basic tools of scientific and technological work." Benson, 409 U.S. at 67. In re Bilski, 545 F.3d 943, 952 (Fed. Cir. 2008) (footnote omitted).

AFFIRMED-IN-PART

1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
Ex Parte Chan HASTINGS 102(b) CHI W. CHAN
bookmark clip
Senderling 756,535 April 5, 1904

3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
Ex Parte Chalin et al MEDLEY 103(a) SMITH IP SERVICES, P.C.
suspension system including an axle assembly that includes a composite axle portion and a spindle attached to the composite axle portion
Aton 983,855 Feb. 7, 1911
Bradley 2,370,773 Mar. 6, 1945
Gimlett et al. 3,756,646 Sep. 4, 1973
VanDenberg 5,788,263 Aug. 4, 1998
Bria et al. 2001/0027890 Oct. 11, 2001