Monday July 5, 2010

REVERSED

2600 Communications
Ex Parte Budde et al 10/276,071 RUGGIERO 103(a) STAAS & HALSEY LLP EXAMINER HAN, QI

Ex Parte Hiddink et al 10/745,882 SAADAT 103(a) RYAN, MASON & LEWIS, LLP EXAMINER PEREZ, ANGELICA

Ex Parte Saxena et al 11/014,301 HAIRSTON 103(a) BUCKLEY, MASCHOFF & TALWALKAR, L.L.C. INTEL CORPORATION EXAMINER HALLENBECK-HUBER, JEREMIAH CHARLES

AFFIRMED-IN-PART

2400 Networking, Mulitplexing, Cable, and Security
Ex Parte Zheng 10/409,089 NAPPI 103(a) FOLEY & LARDNER LLP EXAMINER WON, MICHAEL YOUNG

The Examiner need not give patentable weight to descriptive material absent a new and unobvious functional relationship between the descriptive material and the substrate. See In re Ngai, 367 F.3d 1336, 1338 (Fed. Cir. 2004); In re Lowry, 32 F.3d 1579, 1583-84 (Fed. Cir. 1994); Ex parte Curry, 84 USPQ2d 1272 (BPAI 2005), aff’d, slip op. 06-1003 (Fed. Cir. June 2006).

Ngai, In re, 367 F.3d 1336, 70 USPQ2d 1862 (Fed. Cir. 2004) . . . . . . . . . . 2106.01, 2112.01

Lowry, In re, 32 F.3d 1579, 32 USPQ2d 1031 (Fed. Cir. 1994) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2106.01

NEW

AFFIRMED

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