REVERSED

1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1612 Ex Parte Lasic et al 11/377,537 ADAMS 103(a) ROBINS & PASTERNAK EXAMINER KISHORE, GOLLAMUDI S

1627 Ex Parte Wang 10/496,561 WALSH 103(a) KINNEY & LANGE, P.A. EXAMINER CHONG, YONG SOO

“The presence or absence of a motivation to combine references . . . is a pure question of fact.” In re Gartside, 203 F.3d 1305, 1316 (Fed. Cir. 2000). A conclusion that the claimed subject matter is prima facie obvious must be supported by evidence, as shown by some objective teaching in the prior art or by knowledge generally available to one of ordinary skill in the art that would have led that individual to combine the relevant teachings of the references to arrive at the claimed invention. See In re Fine, 837 F.2d 1071, 1074 (Fed. Cir. 1988).

Gartside, In re, 203 F.3d 1305, 53 USPQ2d 1769 (Fed. Cir. 2000) . .1216.01, 2144.03

Fine, In re, 837 F.2d 1071, 5 USPQ2d 1596 (Fed. Cir. 1988) . . . . . . . . 707.07(f), 2143.01, 2143.03, 2144

1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1774 Ex Parte Parrish 10/923,163 NAGUMO 103(a) NASA JOHN F. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER EXAMINER DUONG, THANH P

2400 Networking, Mulitplexing, Cable, and Security
2442 Ex Parte Guterman et al 10/203,028 KRIVAK 102(e)/103(a) BUCHANAN, INGERSOLL & ROONEY PC EXAMINER HARRELL, ROBERT B

3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3671 Ex Parte Sanders 10/998,114 BAHR 103(a) MAGINOT, MOORE & BECK, LLP EXAMINER HARTMANN, GARY S

3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3721 Ex Parte Baggot et al 11/228,814 BAHR 103(a) DORITY & MANNING, P.A. EXAMINER TAWFIK, SAMEH

3742 Ex Parte Shukla et al 11/138,564 BAHR 103(a) PEARNE & GORDON LLP EXAMINER PASCHALL, MARK H

AFFIRMED-IN-PART

2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2161 Ex Parte Knott et al 10/732,397 DIXON 102(e)/103(a) AT&T Legal Department - JW EXAMINER STACE, BRENT S

2400 Networking, Mulitplexing, Cable, and Security
2451 Ex Parte Whittenberg et al 10/402,337 STEPHENS 102(b) WESTMAN CHAMPLIN (MICROSOFT CORPORATION) EXAMINER DAFTUAR, SAKET K

REEXAMINATION

EXAMINER AFFIRMED-IN-PART; REVERSED-IN-PART; NEW GROUND OF REJECTION

3900 Central Reexamination Unit (CRU)
3751 SPECTRONICS CORPORATION, Requester and Appellant, v. UVIEW ULTRAVIOLET SYSTEMS INC., Patent Owner and Respondent 95/000,025 6,293,319 ROBERTSON 102(e)/102(b)/103(a) 37 C.F.R. § 41.77(a) K&L Gates LLP EXAMINER DOUGLAS, STEVEN O original EXAMINER JACYNA, J CASIMER

In evaluating Declarations under 37 C.F.R. § 1.131, “(1) all the evidence must be considered in its entirety, including the Rule 131 declarations and accompanying exhibits . . . (2) an accompanying exhibit need not support all of the claimed limitations but rather a missing feature may be supplied by the declaration itself . . . and (3) it is entirely appropriate for appellants to rely on a showing of facts set forth in the Rule 131 declarations themselves to establish conception of the invention prior to the effective date of the reference.” Ex Parte Ovshinsky, 10 USPQ2d 1075, 1077 (BPAI 1989) (citations omitted).

AFFIRMED

1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1618 Ex Parte Fikstad et al 09/871,318 GRIMES 103(a) BINGHAM MCCUTCHEN LLP EXAMINER YOUNG, MICAH PAUL

1618 Ex Parte Warren et al 11/059,763 ADAMS 102(b)/103(a) THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY EXAMINER VU, JAKE MINH

See Vehicular Technologies Corp. v. Titan Wheel Int’l, Inc., 212 F.3d 1377, 1383 (Fed. Cir. 2000) (“A drafter uses the term ‘comprising’ to mean ‘I claim at least what follows and potentially more.’”).

1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1765 Ex Parte Li et al 12/028,535 ADAMS 112(1)/103(a) David J. Alexander Fina Technology, Inc. EXAMINER LENIHAN, JEFFREY S

1796 Ex Parte Mager 11/451,963 PAK 103(a) BAYER MATERIAL SCIENCE LLC EXAMINER LISTVOYB, GREGORY

3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3616 Ex Parte Curtis et al 11/759,443 PATE III 112(2)/103(a) CARLSON, GASKEY & OLDS, P.C. EXAMINER BROWN, DREW J

“Combining the teachings of references does not mandate combination of their specific structures.” In re Nievelt, 482 F.2d 965, 968 (CCPA 1973).

Nievelt, In re, 482 F.2d 965, 179 USPQ 224 (CCPA 1973) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2145

3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3732 Ex Parte Leslie-Martin 11/477,087 STAICOVICI 102(b)/103(a) The Ollila Law Group LLC EXAMINER EIDE, HEIDI MARIE