REVERSED

1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
Ex Parte Wirth et al 10/586,458 FREDMAN Dissenting McCOLLUM 103(a) MILLEN, WHITE, ZELANO & BRANIGAN, P.C. EXAMINER LEVY, NEIL S

Ex Parte Burton et al 10/571,437 FREDMAN 103(a) ELI LILLY & COMPANY EXAMINER PACKARD, BENJAMIN J

Kubin stated that

[t]o differentiate between proper and improper applications of “obvious to try,” this court outlined two classes of situations where “obvious to try” is erroneously equated with obviousness under § 103. In the first class of cases, what would have been “obvious to try” would have been to vary all parameters or try each of numerous possible choices until one possibly arrived at a successful result, where the prior art gave either no indication of which parameters werecritical or no direction as to which of many possible choices is likely to be successful.

In re Kubin, 561 F.3d 1351, 1359 (Fed. Cir. 2009) (citing In re O’Farrell, 853 F.2d 894, 903 (Fed. Cir. 1988)).

Kubin, Ex parte, 83 USPQ2d 1410 (Bd. Pat. App. & Int. 2007) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2143.01

1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
Ex Parte Kishimoto et al 11/252,885 HASTINGS 103(a) NIXON & VANDERHYE, PC EXAMINER DHINGRA, RAKESH KUMAR

2400 Networking, Mulitplexing, Cable, and Security
Ex Parte Kojima et al 10/606,184 HOMERE 103(a) CONNOLLY BOVE LODGE & HUTZ LLP EXAMINER LIN, SHEW FEN

Ex Parte Prakash 10/799,860 HOMERE 112(2)/102(a) SCHWEGMAN, LUNDBERG & WOESSNER P.A. EXAMINER SWEARINGEN, JEFFREY R

3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
Ex Parte Schoemann et al 10/709,382 O’NEILL 103(a) WOOD, HERRON & EVANS, LLP (LEAR) EXAMINER PATEL, KIRAN B

3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
Ex Parte Eriksson et al 10/297,250 HORNER 102(b) ABLE LLP EXAMINER KOEHLER, CHRISTOPHER M

AFFIRMED-IN-PART

3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
Ex Parte Terrell 11/064,764 BAHR 102(e)/103(a) THE BLACK & DECKER CORPORATION EXAMINER CHUKWURAH, NATHANIEL C

See Brown v. 3M, 265 F.3d 1349, 1351 (Fed. Cir. 2001) (citing Titanium Metals Corp. of Am. v. Banner, 778 F.2d 775, 782 (Fed. Cir. 1985) (when a claim contains alternatives, the claim is anticipated if any of the alternatives is known in the prior art).

Brown v. 3M, 265 F.3d 1349, 60 USPQ2d 1375 (Fed. Cir. 2001) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2131

AFFIRMED

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Ex Parte Breiner 11/322,051 EXAMINER HIGA, BRENDAN Y
Ex Parte Eastman et al 10/626,244 EXAMINER SHARMA, SUJATHA R
Ex Parte Gallo et al 10/546,088 EXAMINER MCCULLEY, MEGAN CASSANDRA
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Ex Parte King et al 10/738,423 EXAMINER LI, QIAN JANICE
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Ex Parte Wang et al 10/486,262 EXAMINER RASHID, DAVID

REHEARING DENIED

Ex Parte Eidson 10/842,113 EXAMINER PULLIAM, CHRISTYANN R
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