McAward, packard

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REVERSED
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1791 Ex Parte Piorkowski 14701342 - (D) TIMM 112(2)/103 FITCH EVEN TABIN & FLANNERY, LLP DICUS, TAMRA

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2613 Ex Parte Cianfrone 14224939 - (D) McKEOWN 103 Finch & Maloney PLLC LHYMN, SARAH

2625 Ex Parte Puskarich 15091501 - (D) McCARTNEY 103 APPLE INC./BROWNSTEIN c/o Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP HARRIS, DOROTHY H

Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2882 Ex Parte Ouderkirk et al 14865206 - (D) FRANKLIN 102/103 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY LE, BAO-LUAN Q

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3652 Ex Parte Sheedy et al 13513998 - (D) KERINS 103 Atlanta Baker Donelson ROMANO, ASHLEY K

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3732 Ex Parte Perron 14211873 - (D) FITZPATRICK 102/103 GARVEY, SMITH & NEHRBASS, PATENT ATTORNEYS, L.L.C. BAYS, MARIE D

3771 Ex Parte Merz et al 13865532 - (D) KERINS 102/103 KS - Whitmyer IP Group LLC HERBERMANN, ERICH G.

3771 Ex Parte Swaney et al 14208508 - (D) SONG 102/103 TAROLLI, SUNDHEIM, COVELL & TUMMINO L.L.P. HERBERMANN, ERICH G.

3771 Ex Parte LITSCHER et al 14746094 - (D) STEPINA 102 Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP -- BSC BACHMAN, LINDSEY MICHELE

3794 Ex Parte Jackson 14874372 - (D) PESLAK 102/103 41.50 112(2) SIMPSON & SIMPSON, PLLC EKRAMI, YASAMIN

We also enter additional new grounds of rejection against claims 12 and 25 as indefinite under 35 U.S.C. § 112(b ). "[W]e apply the approach for assessing indefiniteness approved by the Federal Circuit in Packard, i.e., '[a] claim is indefinite when it contains words or phrases whose meaning is unclear."' Ex parte McAward, No. 2015-006416, 2017 WL 3669566, at *5 (PTAB Aug. 25, 2017) (precedential) (quoting In re Packard, 751 F.3d 1307, 1310, 1314 (Fed. Cir. 2014)).

Packard, In re, 751 F.3d 1307, 110 USPQ2d 1785 (Fed. Cir. 2014) 2173.02 , 2173.05(a) , 2173.05(e) , 2173.06

AFFIRMED-IN-PART
Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2434 Ex Parte RODGERS et al 14247810 - (D) McKEOWN 103 103 Vista IP Law Group, LLP (Oracle) BAYOU, YONAS A

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3626 Ex Parte Cohen-Solal et al 13981998 - (D) COURTENAY 101 101 PHILIPS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & STANDARDS TIEDEMAN, JASON S

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3774 Ex Parte BAYM et al 13858738 - (D) SCHNEIDER 112(2) 112(1) Advent, LLP/INTELLECTUAL VENTURES BAHENA, CHRISTIE L.

AFFIRMED
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1641 Ex Parte Evers et al 14358512 - (D) VALEK 103 PHILIPS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & STANDARDS COUNTS, GARY W

Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1718 Ex Parte OKIMOTO et al 13749031 - (D) GUPTA dissenting-in-part NAGUMO OTDP 103 OBLON, MCCLELLAND, MAIER & NEUSTADT, L.L.P. BENNETT, CHARLEE

1737 Ex Parte IMAMOTO et al 14698215 - (D) DENNETT 103 Leason Ellis LLP CHEA, THORL

Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2111 Ex Parte Baptist et al 15281317 - (D) KUMAR 101 Garlick & Markison (IBM) GANDHI, DIPAKKUMAR B

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2442 Ex Parte Hesketh et al 13348348 - (D) JURGOVAN 103 LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS, LLC BLAIR, DOUGLAS B

Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2836 Ex Parte Isaacson et al 12887559 - (D) PRAISS 103 CARLSON, GASKEY & OLDS, P.C. DHILLON, JAGDEEP S

2875 Ex Parte Andrews 14195892 - (D) PRAISS 103 Global Intellectual Property Agency, LLC ZIMMERMAN, GLENN D

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3624 Ex Parte WEINBERGER et al 14148199 - (D) JURGOVAN 101/103 MasterCard c/o Ballard Spahr LLP SADANANDA, ABHIJIT B

3626 Ex Parte FINDLAY et al 12468563 - (D) FETTING 103 101/103 Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP MORGAN, ROBERT W

3683 Ex Parte Bortolotti et al 12114728 - (D) McCARTNEY 101/103 IBM CORPORATION C/0: Fabian Vancott AUSTIN, JAMIE H

3688 Ex Parte CRANE et al 12884559 - (D) CUTITTA 101 SHOOK, HARDY & BACON L.L.P. (MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC) ALVAREZ, RAQUEL

packard, nautilus, McAward

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REVERSED
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1714 Ex Parte Johnson et al 13446353 - (D) DENNETT 103 PARKER IBRAHIM & BERG LLP QI, HUA

Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2128 Ex Parte Ruehl et al 13957463 - (D) HAMANN 102/OTDP Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd. (Frankfurt office) GEBRESILASSIE, KIBROM K

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2462 Ex Parte Hoffmann 13911538 - (D) BENNETT 103 GATES & COOPER LLP - Boeing BANTHRONGSACK, JEFF

2462 Ex Parte Zhong 14288870 - (D) HUGHES 103 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. c/o Conley Rose, P.C. BARON, HENRY

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2631 Ex Parte FRIPP et al 14443046 - (D) BARRY 102/103 41.50 112(2) HAYNES AND BOONE, LLP ODOM, CURTIS B

We apply the test for indefiniteness approved by the Federal Circuit in In re Packard, i.e., "[a] claim is indefinite when it contains words or phrases whose meaning is unclear." 751 F.3d 1307, 1310, 1314 (Fed. Cir. 2014) (per curiam) ( citing Manual of Patent Examining Procedure ("MPEP") § 2173.05); see also id. at 1313 (stating that "claims are required to be cast in clear-as opposed to ambiguous, vague, indefinite-terms"); MPEP § 2173.02(1). We recognize that after the Packard decision, the Supreme Court in Nautilus, Inc. v. Biosig Instruments, Inc., 134 S. Ct. 2120 (2014), articulated a differently worded definiteness requirement in the context of patent-infringement litigation. Nautilus, 134 S. Ct. at 2129 (requiring "that a patent's claims, viewed in light of the specification and prosecution history, inform those skilled in the art about the scope of the invention with reasonable certainty"). Nautilus does not, however, mandate a change in the approach to indefiniteness in patent-examination matters in which, as discussed above, the claims are interpreted under the broadest reasonable interpretation standard and an opportunity to amend the claims is afforded. See Packard, 751 F.3d at 1323-24 (Plager, J., concurring) (recognizing and approving the reasons enumerated by the Office regarding why the Office review of pending claims for indefiniteness uses "a lower threshold for ambiguity than a court's"); see also Ex Parte McAward, Appeal 2015006416, 2017 WL 3669566, at *2 (Aug. 25, 2017) (precedential).

Packard, In re, 751 F.3d 1307, 110 USPQ2d 1785 (Fed. Cir. 2014) 2173.02 , 2173.05(a) , 2173.05(e) , 2173.06

Nautilus, Inc. v. Biosig Instruments, Inc., 134 S. Ct. 2120, 110 USPQ2d 1688 (2014) 2173.02

2636 Ex Parte ZHANG et al 15225412 - (D) HUGHES 112(1) Harrity & Harrity, LLP CORS, NATHAN M

Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2886 Ex Parte DEN BOEF et al 14264547 - (D) HOUSEL 102/103 STERNE, KESSLER, GOLDSTEIN & FOX P.L.L.C. COOK, JONATHON

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3617 Ex Parte Naughton 14727888 - (D) MARSCHALL 103 Black, McCuskey, Souers & Arbaugh, LPA VENNE, DANIEL V

3617 Ex Parte Nelson et al 14980663 - (D) CRAWFORD 103 Perkins Coie LLP - DEN General BELLINGER, JASON R

3635 Ex Parte Kelly 14791600 - (D) PLENZLER 103 CANTOR COLBURN LLP WALRAED-SULLIV AN, KYLE

3681 Ex Parte Wallace et al 12206846 - (D) CRAWFORD 103 Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP Adobe Systems, Inc. 58083 BRANDENBURG, WILLIAM A

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3731 Ex Parte Annunziata 11711364 - (D) FREDMAN 112(2)/103 MCDERMOTT, WILL & EMERY LLP HOLLM, JONATHAN A

3743 Ex Parte Andres 13162152 - (D) ASTORINO 103 CARLSON, GASKEY & OLDS, P.C. DECKER, PHILLIP

AFFIRMED-IN-PART
Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3744 Ex Parte Benedict et al 14602336 - (D) BAYAT 103 103 Dority & Manning, P.A. and Haier US Appliance TRPISOVSKY, JOSEPH F

3764 Ex Parte Price 14219464 - (D) GUIJT 102 102/103 ZARLEY LAW FIRM P.L.C. THANH, LOAN H

3782 Ex Parte Ren 14335670 - (D) OSINSKI 102 102/103 41.50 103 Burrus Intellectual Property Law Group LLC DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R

AFFIRMED
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1621 Ex Parte Fischer et al 12740487 - (D) PRATS 102/103 McBee Moore Woodward & Vanik IP, LLC QAZI, SABIHA NAIM

1627 Ex Parte Klamer 12998843 - (D) JENKS 102 Cermak Nakajima & McGowan LLP KANTAMNENI, SHOBHA

1633 Ex Parte Li et al 13341239 - (D) NEW 103 KILPATRICK TOWNSEND & STOCKTONLLP BABIC, CHRISTOPHER M

1677 Ex Parte Akerstrom et al 13636493 - (D) COTTA 103/OTDP 101 Foley & Lardner LLP MARCSISIN, ELLEN JEAN

Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1793 Ex Parte Yoshida et al 12996275 - (D) DERRICK 103 41.50 103 MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY LLP TRAN, LIEN THUY

Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2191 Ex Parte Saenz et al 14620065 - (D) THOMAS 103 Kraguljac Law Group/Oracle CHEN, QING

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2442 Ex Parte Zadeh et al 13854044 - (D) HUGHES 101/103 INNOVATION PARTNERS DOAN, TAN

2465 Ex Parte KIM et al 14180973 - (D) SZPONDOWSKI 103 Jefferson IP Law, LLP COSME, NATASHA W

Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2836 Ex Parte Homan et al 12885901 - (D) SNAY 103 HONIGMAN MILLER SCHWARTZ & COHN LLP AMRANY, ADI

2857 Ex Parte Hadley 13455867 - (D) RANGE 103 Entit Software LLC CROHN, MARK I

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3626 Ex Parte Dhavle et al 13344332 - (D) BUSCH 103 101/103 FIALA & WEAVER P.L.L.C. RAPILLO, KRISTINE K

3681 Ex Parte Bruich et al 13693470 - (D) KIM 101 103 Facebook/Fenwick REFAI,SAMM

3689 Ex Parte Tse 14097079 - (D) BUSCH 112(2)/102/103 101 HICKMAN PALERMO BECKER BINGHAM LLP GLENNIE, DEBRA L

3696 Ex Parte Gamble et al 13782909 - (D) CRAWFORD 101 McKesson Corporation and Alston & Bird LLP c/o Alston & Bird LLP OJIAKU, CHIKAODINAKA

3696 Ex Parte Hilario et al 13169773 - (D) BAYAT 101 BAKER BOTTS L.L.P. NGUYEN, LIZ P

3696 Ex Parte Sarkissian et al 14031757 - (D) MacDONALD 101 K&L GATES LLP-Pittsburgh CHANG, EDWARD

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3753 Ex Parte Cadeau et al 14241140 - (D) ASTORINO 103 BSH Home Appliances Corporation SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO

3778 Ex Parte Nishikawa et al 13764954 - (D) CAPP 103 THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY ANDERSON, CATHARINE L

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REVERSED
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1631 Ex Parte RUSSELL 12472045 - (D) MAJORS 102/103 PHILIPS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & STANDARDS NEGIN, RUSSELL SCOTT

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3644 Ex Parte Stern 13329736 - (D) PESLAK 103 M&G Spectrum HUSON, JOSHUA DANIEL

AFFIRMED-IN-PART
Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2831 Ex Parte Liskow 14366631 - (D) ROSS 102/103 112(1)/112(2)/102 Maginot, Moore & Beck LLP TA, THO DAC

AFFIRMED
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1611 Ex Parte Park et al 12609352 - (D) MAJORS 103 112(2)/103 Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman (Boeing) ANTHOPOLOS, PETER

“[T]he Office establishes a prima facie case of indefiniteness with a rejection explaining how the metes and bounds of a pending claim are not clear because the claim contains words or phrases whose meaning is unclear.” In re McAward, No. 2015-006416 (PTAB Aug. 25, 2017) (precedential)

1615 Ex Parte Halliday et al 14099663 - (D) FREDMAN 103/double patenting double patenting FISH & RICHARDSON P.C. (NY) SASAN, ARADHANA

1648 Ex Parte Chan et al 12808930 - (D) ADAMS 101/103 MORGAN LEWIS & BOCKIUS LLP (WA) ZOU, NIANXIANG

Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1791 Ex Parte Hiroe et al 11992603 - (D) GARRIS 103 KRATZ, QUINTOS & HANSON, LLP STULII, VERA

1793 Ex Parte Galluch et al 12696772 - (D) PRAISS 103 FAY SHARPE LLP MUKHOPADHYAY, BHASKAR

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2649 Ex Parte TOKUDA 14170248 - (D) JEFFERY 103 Studebaker & Brackett PC LU, ZHIYU

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3744 Ex Parte Chen et al 13890885 - (D) HILL 103 BROOKS KUSHMAN P.C./FGTL ARANT, HARRY E

3749 Ex Parte Wortmann et al 13100587 - (D) HILL 103 Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP (WM) MCALLISTER, STEVEN B

REHEARING

DENIED
Tech Center 2600 Communications
2649 Ex Parte Lin et al 13972766 - (D) AMUNDSON 103 Park, Vaughan, Fleming & Dowler LLP — Yao Group LU, ZHIYU