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REVERSED
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1783 Ex Parte Williams 13479414 - (D) INGLESE 103 Legal Department (M-495) VAN SELL, NATHAN L

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2462 Ex Parte Bertrand et al 13455463 - (D) PYONIN 112(2)/102 TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED MILLS, DONALD L

The Examiner finds independent claims 60 and 62 are indefinite, because the claims both recite “circuitry for,” but “fail[] to recite the element which performs each step.” ...

Appellants argue the Examiner erred, because the use of the phrase “circuitry for” in claims 60 and 62 does not create a gap between elements in the claims (see Reply Br. 3—5), and “it is not necessary to recite in the claim everything necessary to operate the device.” Reply Br. 6, citing Deering v. Winona, 155 U.S. 286 (1894), and Special Equipment v. Coe, 324 U.S. 370 (1945).

We are persuaded by Appellants’ arguments.

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2613 Ex Parte Corazza et al 13555548 - (D) KHAN 103 Keller Jolley Preece / Adobe TSENG, CHARLES

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3721 Ex Parte Fluhrer et al 13528625 - (D) PESLAK 112(2)/102/103 Maginot, Moore & Beck LLP TECCO, ANDREW M

3771 Ex Parte Martin et al 12322562 - (D) DOUGAL 103 BGL STUART, COLIN W

AFFIRMED-IN-PART
Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3742 Ex Parte Kramer et al 13560013 - (D) BROWN 103 103 HAYES SOLOWAY P.C. NGUYEN, PHUONG T

AFFIRMED
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1792 Ex Parte Reidy et al 12746861 - (D) PRAISS 103 Nestec S.A. THAKUR, VIREN A

Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2142 Ex Parte NOTTINGHAM et al 12772645 - (D) CRAIG 103 YEE AND ASSOCIATES, P.C. PAN, PHOEBE X

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2612 Ex Parte Furihata et al 14063968 - (D) SHIANG 103 Patterson & Sheridan, LLP - KUDOH LIU, GORDON G

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3683 Ex Parte Tavares et al 13493867 - (D) KHAN 101/103/OTDP KILPATRICK TOWNSEND & STOCKTON LLP LOFTIS, JOHNNA RONEE

3691 Ex Parte Perreault 12683678 - (D) ENGLE 101 TILLMAN WRIGHT, PLLC VYAS, ABHISHEK

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3744 Ex Parte Legros 13193905 - (D) HOELTER 112(2) 103 CARLSON, GASKEY & OLDS, P.C. LEO, LEONARD R

REHEARING

DENIED
Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3686 Ex Parte Baronov et al 13826441 - (R) SCHOPFER 101 Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers LLP GO, JOHN P