REVERSED

3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
Ex Parte Barrett et al SILVERBERG 102(e)/103(a) OSHA LIANG/MI

3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
Ex Parte Pollard BAHR 103(a) HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY

Rejections based on 35 U.S.C. § 103 must rest on a factual basis. In making such a rejection, the examiner has the initial duty of supplying the requisite factual basis and may not, because of doubts that the invention is patentable, resort to speculation, unfounded assumptions, or hindsight reconstruction to supply deficiencies in the factual basis. In re Warner, 379 F.2d 1011, 1017 (CCPA 1967).

Warner, In re, 379 F.2d 1011, 154 USPQ 173 (CCPA 1967) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2142

AFFIRMED-IN-PART

1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
Ex Parte Arciniegas et al LEBOVITZ nonstatutory obviousness-type double patenting/102(b)/102(e)/103(a) TOWNSEND AND TOWNSEND AND CREW, LLP

2100 Computer Architecture and Software
Ex Parte King et al LUCAS 103(a) B. NOEL KIVLIN CONLEY, ROSE, & TAYON, P.C.

In sustaining a multiple reference rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a), the Board may rely on one reference alone without designating it as a new ground of rejection. In re Bush, 296 F.2d 491, 496 (CCPA 1961); In re Boyer, 363 F.2d 455, 458 n.2 (CCPA 1966).

2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
Ex Parte Carver NAGUMO 102(b)/103(a) FLYNN THIEL BOUTELL & TANIS, P.C.

As our reviewing court observed in a related context, “what the patentee subjectively intended his claims to mean is largely irrelevant to the claim's objective meaning and scope.” Solomon v. Kimberly-Clark Corp. , 216 F.3d 1272, 1379 (Fed Cir. 2000).

Solomon v. Kimberly-Clark Corp., 216 F.3d 1372, 55 USPQ2d 1279 (Fed. Cir. 2000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2172

3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
Ex Parte Hamons et al SILVERBERG 103(a) POLSTER, LIEDER, WOODRUFF & LUCCHESI