belkin, american permahedge

REVERSED

1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1777 Ex Parte Yong 11/191,300 GARRIS 103(a) WALTER A. HACKLER, Ph.D. EXAMINER XU, XIAOYUN

3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3715 Ex Parte Huang 10/787,597 PETRAVICK 103(a) SUGHRUE MION, PLLC EXAMINER HU, KANG

3721 Ex Parte Wenchell et al 10/490,790 ADAMS 102(b) Paul R Audet U.S. Surgical, a division of Tyco Healthcare Group EXAMINER CHUKWURAH, NATHANIEL C

3745 Ex Parte Cunha et al 11/339,921 HORNER 102(b)/103(a) BACHMAN & LAPOINTE, P.C. c/o CPA Global EXAMINER EDGAR, RICHARD A
AFFIRMED-IN-PART

2600 Communications
2617 Ex Parte Rai et al 11/091,560 DANG 103(a) 103(a) CARLSON, GASKEY & OLDS, P.C./Alcatel-Lucent EXAMINER CHO, UN C

3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3734 Ex Parte Dorn 10/552,886 ADAMS 103(a) 103(a) C. R. Bard, Inc. Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. EXAMINER BLATT, ERIC D
REEXAMINATION

EXAMINER REVERSED

3900 Central Reexamination Unit (CRU)
2875 Ex Parte 6543911 et al VOLKSWAGEN GROUP OF AMERICA, INC. Requester and Appellant v. LIGHT TRANSFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES LLC Patent Owner and Respondent 95/001,410 COCKS 102(b) PATENT OWNER: Harold McGurk The Law Office of Clay McGurk THIRD-PARTY REQUESTER: KENYON & KENYON LLP EXAMINER HUGHES, DEANDRA M original EXAMINER ALAVI, ALI

The determination by an Examiner that a given prior art reference does not raise a substantial new question of patentability is a non-appealable determination which does not represent a final decision on the patentability of a claim in conjunction with the particular involved prior art reference. See Belkin Int’l, Inc. v. OptimumPath, LLC, Appeal No. 2011-3697 (BPAI Mar. 30, 2011) (informative opinion).
AFFIRMED

1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1616 Ex Parte Kafrissen et al 11/466,504 PRATS 103(a) PHILIP S. JOHNSON JOHNSON & JOHNSON EXAMINER CHOI, FRANK I

1635 Ex Parte WILLIAMS et al 09/410,462 McCOLLUM 102(e) ONYX Pharmaceuticals, Inc. EXAMINER ANGELL, JON E

1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1782 Ex Parte HOWARD 12/013,337 KATZ 103(a) GABLE & GOTWALS EXAMINER SMITH, PRESTON

See American Permahedge, Inc. v. Barcana, Inc., 105 F.3d 1441, 1444 (Fed. Cir. 1997) (“Claims, not the specific embodiments, define the scope of protection.”).

2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2173 Ex Parte Belknap et al 09/986,248 HOMERE 103(a) SUGHRUE MION PLLC USPTO CUSTOMER NO WITH IBM/SVL EXAMINER BONSHOCK, DENNIS G

2400 Networking, Mulitplexing, Cable, and Security
2453 Ex Parte Page et al 10/095,413 DIXON 102(b)/103(a) CAREY, RODRIGUEZ, GREENBERG & O''KEEFE, LLP STEVEN M. GREENBERG EXAMINER CHOUDHURY, AZIZUL Q

2476 Ex Parte Vesuna et al 10/837,439 SAADAT 103(a) MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC. EXAMINER HO, CHUONG T

2836 Ex Parte Sedlak et al 10/701,058 KRIVAK 112(1)/112(2)/103(a) DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP EXAMINER PARRIES, DRU M

3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3627 Ex Parte Chiappetta et al 10/431,723 FETTING 103(a) IBM CORPORATION EXAMINER REFAI, RAMSEY

3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3724 Ex Parte SHAH 09/403,796 KAUFFMAN 103(a) EDWIN D. SCHINDLER EXAMINER PRONE, JASON D

3733 Ex Parte Yuksel et al 09/983,537 FREDMAN 102(b) SUTHERLAND ASBILL & BRENNAN LLP EXAMINER PHILOGENE, PEDRO

3734 Ex Parte Sekine et al 11/375, 946 FREDMAN 103(a) SCULLY SCOTT MURPHY & PRESSER, PC EXAMINER BLATT, ERIC D

3737 Ex Parte Lee et al 10/454,786 ADAMS 103(a) HARNESS, DICKEY & PIERCE, P.L.C. EXAMINER KISH, JAMES M

3754 Ex Parte Salemme 11/012,560 GREENHUT 102(b)/103(a) THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY EXAMINER JACYNA, J CASIMER

3762 Ex Parte Guzman et al 11/191,740 ADAMS 103(a) CYBERONICS, INC. EXAMINER MANUEL, GEORGE C

3772 Ex Parte Michelson 11/410,609 BAHR 102(b) MARTIN & FERRARO, LLP EXAMINER BROWN, MICHAEL A