Friday September 17, 2010

REVERSED

2100 Computer Architecture and Software
Ex Parte Honda 11/062,942 BLANKENSHIP 103(a)/112(2) 37 C.F.R. § 41.50(b) HARNESS, DICKEY & PIERCE, P.L.C. Examiner Name: KNOLL, CLIFFORD H

2600 Communications
Ex Parte Comer et al 10/479,537 HOFF 101/103(a) Joseph S Tripoli Thomson Multimedia Licensing Examiner Name: HOLDER, ANNER N

3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
Ex Parte Lange 11/148,870 HORNER 102(e)/103(a) DAVID R. GILDEA MENLO PATENT AGENCY LLC Examiner Name: DAGER, JONATHAN M

Ex Parte Mashinsky et al 09/939,917 LORIN 103(a) ARBINET-THEEXCHANGE, INC. Examiner Name: HAMILTON, LALITA M

3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
Ex Parte Heim et al 11/379,215 PATE III 102(b)/103(a) Currie Kendall PLC Examiner Name: MILLER, SAMANTHA A

Ex Parte Morman et al 10/730,493 PATE III 103(a) DORITY & MANNING, P.A.Examiner Name: CRAIG, PAULA L

Ex Parte Okuniewicz 11/057,530 HORNER 103(a) BRADLEY ARANT BOULT CUMMINGS LLP Examiner Name: MCCLELLAN, JAMES S

Ex Parte Santini et al 11/041,161 PATE III 102/103 SUTHERLAND ASBILL & BRENNAN LLP Examiner Name: VU, QUYNH-NHU HOANG

AFFIRMED-IN-PART

1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
Ex Parte Thorpe et al 10/642,059 FREDMAN 112(1)/103(a) PEREGRINE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. Examiner Name: FETTEROLF, BRANDON J

See Ex parte Borden, 93 U.S.P.Q.2d 1473 (BPAI 2010) (informative) (new arguments not permitted in Reply Brief without showing of good cause).

REEXAMINATION

EXAMINER REVERSED

3900 Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) Original Art Unit 2875
LIGHT & MOTION INDUSTRIES, INC. Requester v. Patent of SARTEK, LLC Patent Owner and Appellant 95/000,060 6,679,619 DELMENDO 103(a) FOR PATENT OWNER: TAFT, STETTINIUS & HOLLISTER LLP FOR THIRD-PARTY REQUESTER: CARR & FERRELL, LLP Examiner Name: NGUYEN, MINH T original Examiner Name: TRUONG, BAO Q

For a claim in a non-provisional application to be entitled to the filing date of an earlier-filed provisional application, the provisional application must, inter alia, provide a written description of the claimed invention. New Railhead Mfg. LLC v. Vermeer Mfg. Co., 298 F.3d 1290, 1296 (Fed. Cir. 2002).

New Railhead Mfg., L.L.C. v. Vermeer Mfg. Co., 298 F.3d 1290, 63 USPQ2d 1843 (Fed. Cir. 2002) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201.11, 2163

EXAMINER REVERSED

3900 Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) Original Art Unit 2756
Ex parte Rothschild Trust Holdings, LLC Appellant 90/008,591 6,101,534 MEDLEY 102(e)/103(a) CAREY, RODRIGUEZ, GREENBERG & PAUL LLP ATTN: STEVEN M. GREENBERG, ESQ. Third Party Requester: Van Mahamedi Shemwell Mahamedi LLP Examiner Name: WOOD, WILLIAM H original Examiner Name: RINEHART, MARK H

NEW

REVERSED

Ex Parte Bendor et al
Ex Parte Chada
Ex Parte Cook et al
Ex Parte Golla
Ex Parte Hartman et al
Ex Parte Huang et al
Ex Parte Markel
Ex Parte Yu

AFFIRMED

Ex Parte Berg
Ex Parte Danner et al
Ex Parte Devoe et al
Ex Parte Dreher
Ex Parte Gleichauf
Ex Parte Hao et al
Ex Parte Hazumi
Ex Parte Iima et al
Ex Parte Kim et al
Ex Parte Markovich et al
Ex Parte Modi
Ex Parte Pourheidari et al
Ex Parte Short et al
Ex Parte Thomas
Ex Parte Watts
Ex Parte Watts et al
Ex Parte Wei

REHEARING

Ex Parte Kramer et al

REMANDED

Ex Parte Shilling