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REVERSED
Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3772 Ex Parte Chakravarthy 13549839 - (D) CAPP 112(2)/102/103 Burrus Intellectual Property Law Group LLC CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN

The Federal Circuit has provided us with the following guidance on product-by-process claims.

Product-by-process claims are not specifically discussed in the patent statute. The practice and governing law have developed in response to the need to enable an applicant to claim an otherwise patentable product that resists definition by other than the process by which it is made. For this reason, even though product-by-process claims are limited by and defined by the process, determination of patentability is based on the product itself. [citations omitted].  The patentability of a product does not depend on its method of production. In re Pilkington, 411 F.2d 1345, 1348, 162 USPQ 145, 147 (CCPA 1969). If the product in a product-by-process claim is the same as or obvious from a product of the prior art, the claim is unpatentable even though the prior product was made by a different process. [citations omitted]. 

In re Thorpe, 777 F.2d 695, 697 (Fed. Cir. 1985).

Thorpe, In re, 777 F.2d 695, 227 USPQ 964 (Fed. Cir. 1985) 706.02(m) , 2113

AFFIRMED-IN-PART
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1628 Ex Parte Bakale et al 14127511 - (D) GRIMES 103 103 Baker & Hostetler LLP SZNAIDMAN, MARCOS L

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2425 Ex Parte Holden 13631117 - (D) JURGOVAN 103 103 BANNER & WITCOFF, LTD SAINT CYR, JEAN D

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3638 Ex Parte Hampton 13358712 - (D) BAYAT 103 112(2)/103 Kim Winston LLP SILBERMANN, JOANNE

AFFIRMED
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1615 Ex Parte JIANG et al 14019749 - (D) NEW 103 MCDONNELL BOEHNEN HULBERT & BERGH OFF LLP/ AkzoNobel PALENIK, JEFFREY T

Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1761 Ex Parte CHOPRA et al 13925506 - (D) DELMENDO 103 MARYLOU J. LAVOIE, ESQ. LLC YOUNG, WILLIAM D

1785 Ex Parte Kawai et al 13318665 - (D) DELMENDO 103 FLYNN THIEL BOUTELL & TANIS, P.C. POWERS, LAURA C

1787 Ex Parte Kinloch et al 13522604 - (D) PRAISS 112(1) 103 MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS LLP (BO) ROBINSON, ELIZABETH A

1789 Ex Parte Kumar et al 12968847 - (D) BEST 112(2)/102/103 103 CURATOLO SIDOTI CO., LPA COLE, ELIZABETH M

Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2144 Ex Parte Carriero et al 13654220 - (D) McCARTNEY 103 WALDER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW, P.C. IBM CORP. (WIP) LEE, SOOKIL J

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2424 Ex Parte Wang et al 14414920 - (D) HOWARD 103 FAY SHARPE/LUCENT CORBO, NICHOLAS T

2471 Ex Parte Vikberg et al 14238230 - (D) JEFFERY 102/103 Clairvolex Inc. RIVAS, RAUL

Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2858 Ex Parte Tabarovsky et al 12351979 - (D) PER CURIAM 103 Mossman, Kumar and Tyler, PC ZHANG, HAIDONG

2884 Ex Parte Myrick et al 13695831 - (D) CASHION 103 DORITY & MANNING, P.A. GUNBERG, EDWIN C

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3624 Ex Parte Flockhart et al 13623310 - (D) BAYAT Concurring SILVERMAN 101 SHERIDAN ROSS P.C. ZIMMERMAN, JEFFREY P

3625 Ex Parte Sundaresan et al 13544598 - (D) MORGAN 101 Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (eBay Inc.) AIRAPETIAN, MILA

3694 Ex Parte Milne 14304471 - (D) SHAH 101 Lempia Summerfield Katz LLC/CME RANKINS, WILLIAM E

3696 Ex Parte Hammad 12507745 - (D) HUME 101 112(2)/103 KILPATRICK TOWNSEND & STOCKTONLLP/VISA OJIAKU, CHIKAODINAKA

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3728 Ex Parte Snell 14611467 - (D) BROWNE 102/103 103/OTDP TILLMAN WRIGHT, PLLC BUI, LUAN KIM

3731 Ex Parte Martin et al 12982852 - (D) FREDMAN 103 CHOATE, HALL & STEWART LLP DAVID, SHAUN L

3769 Ex Parte Carriazo 11913458 - (D) SCHNEIDER 103 BARLOW, JOSEPHS & HOLMES, LTD. DOWNEY, JOHN R