Thursday July 29, 2010

REVERSED

1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
Ex Parte Caussette et al 10/499,663 SPIEGEL 103(a) NIXON & VANDERHYE, PC
Examiner Name:
ARIANI, KADE

The question of obviousness is resolved on the basis of underlying factual determinations. Graham v. John Deere Co. of Kansas City, 383 U.S. 1, 17 (1966).

Graham v. John Deere, 383 U.S. 1, 148 USPQ 459 (1966). . . . . . 706.02(j), 706.02(m), 716.01(a), 804, 1504.03, 1504.06, 2106, 2141, 2144.08, 2258

Ex Parte Sinclair 11/031,534 SCHEINER 112(1)/103(a) KUBOVCIK & KUBOVCIK
Examiner Name:
CARTER, KENDRA D

“Title 35 does not require that a patent disclosure enable one of ordinary skill in the art to make and use a perfected, commercially viable embodiment absent a claim limitation to that effect.” CFMT, Inc. v. Yieldup Int’l Corp., 349 F.3d 1333, 1338 (Fed. Cir. 2003). See also In re Cortright, 165 F.3d 1353, 1359 (Fed. Cir. 1999) (claims to method of “restoring hair growth” encompassed achieving full head of hair but did not require it).

CFMT, Inc. v. Yieldup Int ’l Corp., 349 F.3d 1333, 68 USPQ2d 1940 (Fed. Cir. 2003). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2164

Cortright, In re, 165 F.3d 1353, 49USPQ2d 1464 (Fed. Cir. 1999). . . . . 2111, 2164.04

1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
Ex Parte Chen et al 10/397,490 GARRIS 112(1)/112(2)/102(b) CORNING INCORPORATED
Examiner Name:
HOFFMANN, JOHN M

Ex Parte Iwasa et al 11/166,253 HASTINGS 102(b)/103(a) OBLON, SPIVAK, MCCLELLAND MAIER & NEUSTADT, L.L.P.
Examiner Name:
SHEWAREGED, BETELHEM

Ex Parte Yoshida et al 10/873,620 HASTINGS 103(a) NIXON & VANDERHYE, PC

3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
Ex Parte Ollivier et al 11/042,797 O’NEILL 103(a) ORRICK HERRINGTON & SUFCLIFFE LLP
Examiner Name:
HELLER, TAMMIE K

Ex Parte Andersson et al 10/673,689 O’NEILL 103(a) FINNEGAN, HENDERSON, FARABOW,GARRETT & DUNNER LLP
Examiner Name:
PATEL, NIHIR B

AFFIRMED-IN-PART

2100 Computer Architecture and Software
Ex Parte Cragun et al 10/731,080 DANG 103(a) IBM CORPORATION
Examiner Name:
LUDWIG, MATTHEW J

Ex Parte Schwarzbauer et al 10/676,227 BLANKENSHIP 102(e)/103(a) KOKKA & BACKUS, PC
Examiner Name:
RUTLEDGE, AMELIA L

“[A]bsence from the reference of any claimed element negates anticipation.” Kloster Speedsteel AB v. Crucible, Inc., 793 F.2d 1565, 1571 (Fed. Cir. 1986).

3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
Ex Parte Borelli et al 09/992,379 FISCHETTI 103(a) GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP
Examiner Name:
BUCHANAN, CHRISTOPHER R

REEXAMINATION

EXAMINER AFFIRMED-IN-PART

3900 Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) Original Art Unit 3651
REXNORD INDUSTRIES, LLC Requester and Cross-Appellant v. HABASIT BELTING, INC. Patent Owner and Appellant 95/000,072 6,523,680 ROBERTSON 102(e)/103(a) PATENT OWNER: McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP THIRD-PARTY REQUESTER: Quarles & Brady LLP
Examiner Name:
FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL

NEW

REVERSED

Ex Parte Chiba et al
Ex Parte MENDOZA
Ex Parte Pawluczyk et al
Ex Parte De Rigal et al
Ex Parte Yendler et al

AFFIRMED-IN-PART

Ex Parte Bryant

AFFIRMED

Ex Parte Brabec
Ex Parte Callahan et al
Ex Parte Chen et al
Ex Parte Choo et al
Ex Parte Colpas et al
Ex Parte Dai et al
Ex Parte Dettinger et al
Ex Parte Leas et al
Ex Parte Lortz et al
Ex Parte McDysan
Ex Parte Moore et al
Ex Parte Nitzan et al
Ex Parte Ranganathan
Ex Parte Yada et al
Ex Parte Zeller

REHEARING

Ex Parte Daneshvar
Ex Parte Harris et al
Ex Parte Wendling et al
Ex Parte Zeller