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PTAB.US: Decisions of PTAB Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Wednesday October 20, 2010

REVERSED

1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
Ex Parte Cao 10/420,643 PRATS 103(a) PERKINS COIE LLP EXAMINER CROW, ROBERT THOMAS

As our reviewing court recently stated, “it is not enough to simply show that the references disclose the claim limitations; in addition, ‘it can be important to identify a reason that would have prompted a person of ordinary skill in the art to combine the elements as the new invention does.’” Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling, Inc. v. Maersk Contractors USA, Inc., --- F.3d ----, 2010 WL 3257312 at *4 (Fed. Cir. 2010) (quoting KSR Int’l Co. v. Teleflex Inc., 550 U.S. 398, 401 (2007)).

KSR International Co. v. Teleflex Inc., 550 USPQ2d 1385 (2007) . . . . . . . . .2141 to 2145, 2216, 2242, 2286, 2616, 2642, 2686.04

2600 Communications
Ex Parte Ilda et al 11/210,862 RUGGIERO 102(e)/103(a) OBLON SPIVAK MCCLELLAND MAIER & NEUSTADT LLP EXAMINER SPINKS, ANTOINETTE T

AFFIRMED-IN-PART

1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
Ex Parte Bergman et al 10/978,792 OWENS 103(a) 37 C.F.R. § 41.50(b) CHEVRON PHILLIPS CHEMICAL COMPANY EXAMINER CHEUNG, WILLIAM K

REEXAMINATION

EXAMINER AFFIRMED-IN-PART

3900 Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) Original Art Unit 2651
Ex parte MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD. 90/008,302 6,995,940 LEE 102(e) FLIESLER MEYER LLP EXAMINER RIMELL, SAMUEL G original EXAMINER SNIEZEK, ANDREW L

EXAMINER REVERSED

3900 Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) Original Art Unit 2733
Ex parte QPSX DEVELOPMENTS 5 PTY. LTD. 90/008,233 5,689,499 LEE 102(b) Scott A. McKeown OBLON, SPIVAK, McCLELLAND, MAIER & NEUSTADT, P.C. Third Party Requester: Christopher L. McKee, Esq. BANNER & WITCOFF LTD. EXAMINER DEB, ANJAN K original EXAMINER MARCELO, MELVIN C

AFFIRMED

Ex Parte Gilbert 11/208,904 EXAMINER MESFIN, YEMANE
Ex Parte Habermas 10/740,871 EXAMINER LEWIS, ALICIA M
Ex Parte Nguyen et al 11/199,523 EXAMINER KNOLL, CLIFFORD H

REMANDED

Ex Parte Choo et al 11/514,850 EXAMINER WESSENDORF, TERESA D

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