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PTAB.US: Decisions of PTAB Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Friday, August 7, 2020

eibel, sponnable, conrad



REVERSED 
1613 Kirk P. Seward 13656413 - (D) JENKS 103 WILSON, SONSINI, GOODRICH & ROSATI PHAN, DOAN THI-THUC

1643 Katsuko Yamashita et al. 13147905 - (D) GRIMES Concurring TOWNSEND 101/103 KILPATRICK TOWNSEND & STOCKTON LLP DENT, ALANA HARRIS

1793 Cadena Bio, Inc. 14795720 - (D) SQUIRE Concurring HOUSEL 103 CLARK & ELBING LLP
GEORGE, PATRICIA ANN

1799 Apparuti, Daniele et al. 13378008 - (D) HANLON 103 BUCHANAN, INGERSOLL & ROONEY PC YOO, REGINA M

2119 Singal, Kalpesh et al. 14575819 - (D) COURTENAY 103 GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY KABIR, SAAD M

2126 CLARIFAI, INC. 15369735 - (D) HUGHES 101 PILLSBURY WINTHROP SHAW PITTMAN LLP (CV) LAMARDO, VIKER ALEJANDRO

2144 Matichuk, Bruce et al. 11544685 - (D) FRAHM 112(1)/103 Harrington & Smith, Attorneys At Law, LLC STORK, KYLE R

2625 Universal Display Corporation 14573762 - (D) DIXON 103 Morris & Kamlay LLP / UDC GYAWALI, BIPIN

2647 PHAM, HUNG A. et al. 14291404 - (D) BUSCH 112(2)/103 FISH & RICHARDSON P.C. (APPLE) TORRES, MARCOS L

2829 Applied Materials, Inc. 14567161 - (D) BARRY 103 PATTERSON & SHERIDAN, LLP - - APPLIED MATERIALS MAI, ANH D

3658 FANUC CORPORATION 15077910 - (D) CALVE 103 HAUPTMAN HAM, LLP 
RUSHING, JR, BOBBY

Our reviewing court recently described this issue as follows: Eibel Process and Sponnoble both stand for the proposition that the discovery of an unknown problem can result in a patentable invention, even if the solution would have been obvious once the problem is identified.  Eibel Process, 261 U.S. at 67–68, 43 S. Ct. 322; Sponnoble, 405 F.2d at 585.  They did not address whether the Board must consider the discovery of an unknown problem when there exists an independent motivation to combine prior art references.  Instead, those cases found that the inventor’s discovery of and solution to an unknown problem weighed in favor of nonobviousness because the proffered reason to modify the prior art did not present a specific, alternate basis that was unrelated to the rationale behind the inventor’s reasons for making the invention.  Here, the examiner and the Board determined that a person of ordinary skill in the art would combine the ’009 publication with Raviendran for a reason independent from solving the problem identified by Conrad—to improve structural integrity by removing the folding seam. 
 
See In re Conrad, 759 F. App’x 982, 985–86 (Fed. Cir. 2019). 


Sponnoble, In re, 405 F.2d 578, 160 USPQ 237 (CCPA 1969) 2141.02

3691 KAY, Christopher E. et al. 13082654 - (D) MOHANTY 112(1)/103 FOLEY & LARDNER LLP
TINKLER, MURIEL S

3732 Brown, Paul Anthony. 13245954 - (D) MARTIN 103 Elan IP Inc. KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ

3735 Chew, Kong Mun. 13274100 - (D) SONG 103 Dorsey & Whitney - Menicon NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA

3793 Palti, Yoram 13750246 - (D) PLENZLER 112(1) Potomac Law Group, PLLC MEHL, PATRICK M

AFFIRMED-IN-PART
2482 Motorola Mobility LLC 14711833 - (D) RAEVSKY 103 103 Burrus Intellectual Property Law Group (MM Files) RETALLICK, KAITLIN A

3626 LaBorde, David 14228739 - (D) MOHANTY 103 103 Culpepper IP, LLLC KOPPIKAR, VIVEK D

3741 UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION 14432442 - (D) STEPINA 103 103 Getz Balich LLC KIM, CRAIG SANG

3745 United Technologies Corporation 15089891 - (D) ASTORINO 112(1)/102/103 112(2) CARLSON, GASKEY & OLDS/PRATT & WHITNEY DELRUE, BRIAN CHRISTOPHER

3793 Neff, Thomas 13170690 - (D) HILL 112(1)/112(2)/102/103 112(1) Dorton & Willis LLP
CWERN, JONATHAN

AFFIRMED 
1611 Epikinetics Pharma, LLC 14283073 - (D) LAVIER OTDP 103/OTDP BLYNN L. SHIDELER THE BLK LAW GROUP RICCI, CRAIG D

1612 Frederic Sedel et al. 13639752 - (D) TOWNSEND 103 ROTHWELL, FIGG, ERNST & MANBECK, P.C. PARAD, DENNIS J

1633 2-BBB Medicines B.V. 14692422 - (D) COTTA 102/103 FOLEY & LARDNER LLP POPA, ILEANA

1633 Deisseroth, Karl A. et al. 14385331 - (D) VALEK 103 STANFORD UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF TECHNOLOGY LICENSING BOZICEVIC, FIELD & FRANCIS LLP HILL, KEVIN KAI

1641 Northwestern University 13772796 - (D) PRATS 102/103 103 Quarles & Brady LLP (Northwestern) MARCSISIN, ELLEN JEAN

1645 ALLERGAN, INC. 14139519 - (D) TOWNSEND 103/OTDP ALLERGAN, INC. LYONS, MARY M

1796 JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATION 15054610 - (D) CASHION 103 BUCHANAN, INGERSOLL & ROONEY PC WILKINS III, HARRY D

2158 KENEXA TECHNOLOGY, LLC 15137436 - (D) SAADAT 103 101 Cuenot, Forsythe & Kim, LLC RUIZ, ANGELICA

2175 Microsoft Corporation 14089663 - (D) NAPPI 112(2) 102/103 MICROSOFT CORPORATION HO, RUAY L

2182 KYNDI, INC. 14965708 - (D) HUGHES 101 OBLON, MCCLELLAND, MAIER & NEUSTADT, L.L.P. NGO, CHUONG D

2424 Remi Houdaille et al. 13677387 - (D) WHITEHEAD JR. 103 Invention Mine IDC FLYNN, RANDY A

2432 PHANTOM TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 13857714 - (D) CASS 102/103 FISH & RICHARDSON P.C. (SD) POPHAM, JEFFREY D

2433 Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC 14261908 - (D) HOMERE 103 Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC GOODCHILD, WILLIAM J

2482 Autoliv Development AB 14704521 - (D) LEE 102/103 Dickinson Wright PLLC/Autoliv ASP
KWAN, MATTHEW K

2485 Michael C. Mongeon et al. 13933194 - (D) BRANCH 112(1)/102/103 FAY SHARPE LLP / CONDUENT HASAN, MAINUL

2812 Daniel Edelstein et al. 15150961 - (D) FRAHM 112(1)/112(2) 112(1)/112(2)/103 Otterstedt, Wallace & Kammer, LLP SABUR, ALIA

2855 EPCOS AG 14740429 - (D) HEANEY 103 IP GROUP OF DLA PIPER LLP (US) 
SOTO, JANICE M

3624 FAINOR, Judith A. et al. 14036716 - (D) FISCHETTI 103 101 Reed Smith LLP SCHEUNEMANN, RICHARD N

3624 ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION 14248225 - (D) LEBOVITZ 112(2) 101/103 Vista IP Law Group, LLP (Oracle) BEHNCKE, CHRISTINE M

3625 Level 3 Communications, LLC 14120283 - (D) REPKO 103 101 LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS, LLC LEVINE, ADAM L

3625 LISUTO K.K. 14632346 - (D) McMILLIN 101/102 SUGHRUE MION, PLLC GARG, YOGESH C

3626 Langdon, Robert W. 12171160 - (D) BARRY 112(1)/102/103 101 NORTON ROSE FULBRIGHT US LLP PORTER, RACHEL L

3666 Yulun Wang et al. 13277449 - (D) REIMERS 103 InTouch Health AMIN, BHAVESH V

3668 Zhou Bailiang 14957425 - (D) MARTIN 101 Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (Google)
SCHNEIDER, PAULA LYNN

3682 Avaya Inc. 14609615 - (D) CRAIG 112(1) 101/103 SHERIDAN ROSS P.C. ANDREI, RADU

3682 Hypertherm, Inc. 15359880 - (D) CHUNG 101 103 ANDREI, RADU ANDREI, RADU

3685 Navar, Murgesh et al. 13550563 - (D) BRANCH 101/103 Polsinelli LLP - TE2
WINTER, JOHN M

3685 MOSQUERA, LUIS D. 13271131 - (D) STRAUSS 101 101/103 The Law Office of Michael J. Scheer MARTINEZ-HERNAND, EDGAR R

3686 Green, W. Thomas. et al. 13083449 - (D) FISCHETTI 101 BLANK ROME LLP AUGUSTINE, VICTORIA PEARL

3687 Fisher, Michelle 14253607 - (D) WHITEHEAD JR. 112(1)/112(2)/103 Michelle Fisher GOYEA, OLUSEGUN

3688 Vohra, Lalit et al. 13946255 - (D) FISCHETTI 102/103 101 Keller Jolley Preece / Adobe MACASIANO, MARILYN G

3691 Whitehouse, Harry T. 12842695 - (D) MEDLOCK 101 Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP VYAS, ABHISHEK

3711 Benjamin Radford et al. 15694549 - (D) CAPP 102/103 112(2)/102 Aaron Ward WONG, STEVEN B

3746 UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION 15036109 - (D) STEPINA 103 CARLSON, GASKEY & OLDS/PRATT & WHITNEY BOGUE, JESSE SAMUEL

3753 United Technologies Corporation 14616922 - (D) OSINSKI 112(2) 103 CARLSON, GASKEY & OLDS/PRATT & WHITNEY DURDEN, RICHARD KYLE

3799 David Cerutti et al. 13062592 - (D) GREENHUT 103 112(1)/103 41.50 112(2) Avon Products, Inc. NOBREGA, TATIANA L
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