Thursday September 9, 2010

REVERSED

2100 Computer Architecture and Software
Ex Parte Brunswig et al 10/854,929 SIU 102(b) FINNEGAN, HENDERSON, FARABOW, GARRETT & DUNNER LLP Examiner Name: HARPER, ELIYAH STONE

2600 Communications
Ex Parte Hayes et al 10/922,673 MANTIS MERCADER 103(a) GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP Examiner Name: SIM, YONG H

3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
Ex Parte Rueger et al 11/146,735 STAICOVICI 102(e)/103(a) DICKINSON WRIGHT PLLC Examiner Name: LEE, GILBERT Y

3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
Ex Parte Guenther et al 11/018,628 PATE III 103(a) Wilson Sporting Goods Co. Examiner Name: WONG, STEVEN B

Ex Parte Holmes et al 09/939,535 SILVERBERG 103(a) CHRISTOPHER M. GOFF (27839)
ARMSTRONG TEASDALE LLP Examiner Name: STEPHENS, JACQUELINE P

Ex Parte Ito et al 10/833,337 SILVERBERG 112(1)/102(b)/103(a) LOWE HAUPTMAN HAM & BERNER, LLP Examiner Name: REICHLE, KARIN M

AFFIRMED-IN-PART

3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
Ex Parte Bunker et al 10/907,773 KERINS 103(a) FLETCHER YODER (ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.) Examiner Name: RALIS, STEPHEN J

VACATED

2400 Networking, Mulitplexing, Cable, and Security
Ex Parte Fatula 10/735,938 THOMAS 103(a)/101 37 C.F.R. § 41.50(b) KUNZLER NEEDHAM MASSEY & THORPE Examiner Name: TAYLOR, NICHOLAS R

A claim that recites no more than software, logic or a data structure (i.e., an abstraction) does not fall within any statutory category. In re Warmerdam, 33 F.3d 1354, 1361 (Fed. Cir. 1994). Significantly, “[a]bstract software code is an idea without physical embodiment.” Microsoft Corp. v. AT&T Corp., 550 U.S. 437, 449 (2007). The unpatentability of abstract ideas was reaffirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in Bilski v. Kappos, 130 S.Ct. 3218 (2010).

Warmerdam, In re, 33 F.3d 1354, 31 USPQ2d 1754 (Fed. Cir. 1994) . .2106, 2106.01, 2106.02

NEW

REVERSED

Ex Parte Weiss et al

AFFIRMED

Ex parte AGRIPA HOLDINGS LTD.
Ex Parte Barsness et al
Ex Parte Bassett et al
Ex Parte Fencl
Ex Parte Haseltine et al
Ex Parte Hoke et al
Ex Parte Krebs et al
Ex Parte Oppert et al
Ex Parte Reppy et al
Ex Parte Roth et al
Ex Parte Shabtay et al
Ex Parte Wu et al
Ex Parte Zerbe et al

REHEARING

DENIED

Ex Parte Evrard et al

REMAND

Ex Parte Baker et al
Ex Parte Hermann