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REVERSED
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1712 Ex Parte Poole et al 12850135 - (D) ROESEL 103 PPG Industries, Inc. PENNY, TABATHA L

1756 Ex Parte Freeborn et al 12550573 - (D) DELMENDO 103 Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C. (Lam) ABRAHAM, IBRAHIME A

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2613 Ex Parte Emmett et al 11613483 - (D) PINKERTON 103 Basch & Nickerson LLP TSENG, CHARLES

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3652 Ex Parte Haris 11093480 - (D) STAICOVICI 103 Perman & Green, LLP LOWE, MICHAEL S

Finally, we do not agree with the Examiner’s stance that as long as the controller of Imahashi and White is capable of performing the recited function, namely, to create a bypass transport path to transport substrates based upon information that the primary transport path is unavailable, then the controller of Imahashi and White “meets the claim.” Ans. 2–3. Appellant is correct that when functional language is associated with programming or some other structure required to perform the function, that programming or structure must be present in order to meet the claim limitation. See Reply Br. 5–6 (citing See Typhoon Touch Technologies, Inc. v. Dell, Inc., 659 F.3d 1376, 1380 (Fed. Cir. 2011)). As such, in these circumstances, the “capable of” test requires that the prior art structure be capable of performing the function without further programming. Id. The Examiner has not provided any findings that the controller of Imahashi and White is capable of creating a bypass transport path to transport substrates based upon information that the primary transport path is unavailable, as called for by each of independent claims 1 and 13, without further programming.

3694 Ex Parte Borkovec et al 11976433 - (D) MOHANTY 103 ROTHWELL, FIGG, ERNST & MANBECK, P.C. SHAIKH, MOHAMMAD Z

AFFIRMED-IN-PART
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1787 Ex Parte Inenaga 11911549 - (D) ROESEL 103 103 OBLON, MCCLELLAND, MAIER & NEUSTADT, L.L.P. HUANG, CHENG YUAN

AFFIRMED 
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1747 Ex Parte Fueller 12085861 - (D) DERRICK 103 SIMPSON & SIMPSON, PLLC KRINKER, YANA B

1787 Ex Parte Yung et al 12183425 - (D) KAISER 112(2)/101 112(1)/102/103 DUANE MORRIS LLP - (prev. San Francisco) FREEMAN, JOHN D

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2467 Ex Parte VAN EWIJK et al 11923540 - (D) MANTIS MERCADER 103 HARNESS, DICKEY & PIERCE, P.L.C. CATTUNGAL, AJAY P

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3673 Ex Parte OREAGAN et al 12607215 - (D) JESCHKE 103 DORITY & MANNING, P.A. CUOMO, PETER M

3673 Ex Parte OREAGAN et al 12110702 - (D) JESCHKE 103 DORITY & MANNING, P.A. CUOMO, PETER M

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3728 Ex Parte Omori et al 11516719 - (D) HOFFMANN 103 KUBOVCIK & KUBOVCIK CHEUNG, CHUN HOI