arkley, boston scientific

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REVERSED
Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2169 Ex Parte Walter 11388411 - (D) DILLON 102/103 BLAKELY SOKOLOFF TAYLOR & ZAFMAN SAP/BSTZ KIM, PAUL

Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2894 Ex Parte Edwards et al 11755019 - (D) WHITEHEAD, JR. 102/103 FREDERICK W. GIBB, III GIBB & RILEY, LLC PHAM, THANH V

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3676 Ex Parte Lembcke et al 11680717 - (D) HORNER 103 PATTERSON & SHERIDAN, L.L.P. / Weatherford FULLER, ROBERT EDWARD

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3738 Ex Parte Hartley et al 10396676 - (D) SCHEINER 103 BRINKS HOFER GILSON & LIONE/CHICAGO/COOK STEWART, JASON-DENNIS NEILKEN

3751 Ex Parte Takasu 11889249 - (D) STAICOVICI 112(1)/102/103 SUGHRUE-265550 LE, HUYEN D

3766 Ex Parte Ghanem et al 11744455 - (D) GREEN 103 Medtronic, Inc. (CRDM) PORTER, JR, GARY A

3767 Ex Parte Cindrich et al 10916649 - (D) GREEN 102/103 Becton, Dickinson and Company SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE

(Ans. 13 (citing Boston Scientific Scimed v. Cordis, 554 F.3d 982, 991 (Fed. Cir. 2009)). We do not find the citation of that case, however, to be sufficient to support a conclusion of obviousness.

That is, while the Federal Circuit stated in Boston Scientific Scimed that “[c]ombining two embodiments disclosed adjacent to each other in a prior art patent does not require a leap of inventiveness,” Boston Scientific Scimed, 554 F.3d at 991, the Examiner has not explained how the facts in that case would lead to the same conclusion in the instant appeal.
3775 Ex Parte Cook et al 11546391 - (D) GRIMES 103 DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP WAGGLE, JR, LARRY E

AFFIRMED-IN-PART
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1613 Ex Parte OHARE 12011773 - (D) PRATS 103 102/103 37 C.F.R. § 41.50(b) 102 BOZICEVIC, FIELD & FRANCIS LLP ARNOLD, ERNST V

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2424 Ex Parte Newnam et al 10142756 - (D) ARPIN 102/103 103 ERICSSON INC. NEWLIN, TIMOTHY R

Moreover, to the extent that the Examiner relies on teachings selectively drawn from different embodiments of Dougherty to disclose the disputed limitations of claim 9, this is improper in the context of an anticipation rejection. Application of Arkley, 455 F.2d 586, 587-88 (CCPA 1972). In Arkley, the court found that rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 103 are proper where the subject matter claimed “is not identically disclosed or described” (emphasis ours) in “the prior art,” indicating that rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 102 are proper only when the claimed subject matter is identically disclosed or described in “the prior art.” Thus, for the instant rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) to have been proper, the [cited] reference must clearly and unequivocally disclose the claimed [system] or direct those skilled in the art to the [system] without any need for picking, choosing, and combining various disclosures not directly related to each other by the teachings of the cited reference. Such picking and choosing may be entirely proper in the making of a 103, obviousness rejection, where the applicant must be afforded an opportunity to rebut with objective evidence any inference of obviousness which may arise from the similarity of the subject matter which he claims to the prior art, but it has no place in the making of a 102, anticipation rejection. Id.

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2642 Ex Parte Marzetta 11553191 - (D) PARVIS 112(2) 112(2)/102/103 RYAN, MASON & LEWIS, LLP SCHWARTZ, JOSHUA L

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3665 Ex Parte Ames et al 11106192 - (D) BUNTING 102/103 112(2) Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd. NGUYEN, CHUONG P

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3775 Ex Parte Burkus et al 11725618 - (D) ADAMS 103 103 Medtronic, Inc (Spinal/Krieg DeVault) LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES

3778 Ex Parte Kleman 11022379 - (D) SCHEINER 103 102/103 DORITY & MANNING, P.A. DIXON, ANNETTE FREDRICKA

AFFIRMED
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1734 Ex Parte Alexandrovichserov et al 11607660 - (D) KIMLIN 103 CHRISTIE, PARKER & HALE, LLP FORREST, MICHAEL

1741 Ex Parte Habik et al 10544182 - (D) SMITH 103 BACON & THOMAS, PLLC CORDRAY, DENNIS R

1745 Ex Parte Deka 11649714 - (D) SMITH 103 DORITY & MANNING, P.A. TOLIN, MICHAEL A

1761 Ex Parte Kinscherf et al 11532227 - (D) SMITH 103 COLGATE-PALMOLIVE COMPANY OGDEN JR, NECHOLUS

1767 Ex Parte Heuer et al 11157092 - (D) DELMENDO 103 NOVAK DRUCE CONNOLLY BOVE + QUIGG LLP PEPITONE, MICHAEL F

1793 Ex Parte Dohl et al 11830507 - (D) GAUDETTE 103 Hovey Williams LLP GEORGE, PATRICIA ANN

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2432 Ex Parte Pinder 11407653 - (D) JEFFERY 103 Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P. Cisco Systems, Inc. LANIER, BENJAMIN E

2436 Ex Parte Coppola et al 11227806 - (D) DESHPANDE 103 IBM CORPORATION NGUYEN, TRONG H

2476 Ex Parte Moriarty et al 10285069 - (D) KUMAR 103 Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP HALIYUR, VENKATESH N

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2674 Ex Parte Yamada 11294406 - (D) COURTENAY 102/103 BUCHANAN, INGERSOLL & ROONEY PC YANG, QIAN

Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2814 Ex Parte Seo et al 11267576 - (D) KRIVAK 103 HARNESS, DICKEY & PIERCE, P.L.C. PHAM, LONG

2858 Ex Parte Morrison et al 11555373 - (D) McKONE 112(1)/103 WesternGeco L.L.C. PHAN, HUY Q

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3626 Ex Parte Jung et al 11888614 - (D) PRAISS 103 THE INVENTION SCIENCE FUND CLARENCE T. TEGREENE RAPILLO, KRISTINE K

3626 Ex Parte Jung et al 11486973 - (D) PRAISS 103 THE INVENTION SCIENCE FUND CLARENCE T. TEGREENE HUNTER, SEAN KRISTOPHER
3686 Ex Parte Jung et al 11888627 - (D) PRAISS 103 Constellation Law Group, PLLC WOODS, TERESA S

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3742 Ex Parte Czerner et al 10556644 - (D) MARTIN 103 Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC HEINRICH, SAMUEL M

3767 Ex Parte Morris et al 11754759 - (D) GRIMES 102/103 Medtronic, Inc. (CRDM) THOMAS, JR, BRADLEY G

3771 Ex Parte Gloag et al 11743723 - (D) JENKS 112(2)/102/103 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY SKORUPA, VALERIE LYNN

3773 Ex Parte Dreyfuss 11224060 - (D) SNEDDEN 103 DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP MASHACK, MARK F

REHEARING

DENIED
Tech Center 2600 Communications
2636 Ex Parte Grosz et al 10139058 - (D) HOFF 103 WALL & TONG, LLP/ALCATEL-LUCENT USA INC. ALAGHEBAND, ABBAS H

boston scientific, flo healthcare

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REVERSED
Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2451 Ex Parte Wollborn 10399633 - (D) PETTIGREW 103 KENYON & KENYON LLP PATEL, DHAIRYA A

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3621 Ex Parte Wang 10424785 - (D) MEDLOCK 103 Reed Smith LLP ZELASKIEWICZ, CHRYSTINA E

3654 Ex Parte Tonna et al 11397457 - (D) POWELL 103 CARLSON GASKEY & OLDS KRUER, STEFAN

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3721 Ex Parte Eftymiades 10181235 - (D) TARTAL 103 Nixon Peabody LLP ELVE, MARIA ALEXANDRA

3738 Ex Parte Nelson 10234070 - (D) GRIMES 103 VIDAS, ARRETT & STEINKRAUS, P.A. PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D

3742 Ex Parte Matthews et al 11735165 - (D) GREENHUT 102/103 HAHN LOESER / LINCOLN  JENNISON, BRIAN W

3777 Ex Parte Baumgartner et al 10814830 - (D) FREDMAN 112(1) 103 37 C.F.R. § 41.50(b) 103 GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (PCPI) C/O FLETCHER YODER RAMIREZ, JOHN FERNANDO

AFFIRMED-IN-PART
Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3782 Ex Parte Trouilly et al 11461963 - (D) WEATHERLY 103 102 K&L Gates LLP PASCUA, JES F

The Federal Circuit recently reiterated the well-established principle that “it is not proper to import from the patent’s written description limitations that are not found in the claims themselves.” Flo Healthcare Solutions, LLC v. Kappos, 697 F.3d 1367, 1375 (Fed. Cir. 2012).

AFFIRMED
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1761 Ex Parte Jarus 12519678 - (D) TIMM 103 POLYONE CORPORATION SZEKELY, PETER A

Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2185 Ex Parte Williams 10832514 - (D) COURTENAY 112(2)/103 Rogitz & Associates DOAN, DUC T

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2631 Ex Parte Fritsch et al 10538152 - (D) HOMERE 103 Siemens Corporation SINGH, HIRDEPAL

2647 Ex Parte Murray 11191108 - (D) COURTENAY 103 COATS & BENNETT/SONY ERICSSON  TRAN, PAUL P

“Combining two embodiments disclosed adjacent to each other in a prior art patent does not require a leap of inventiveness.” Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. v. Cordis Corp., 554 F.3d 982, 991 (Fed. Cir. 2009). 

REHEARING

DENIED
Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2112 Ex Parte Radich 10607967 - (D) HOMERE 103 SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC C/O WESTMAN, CHAMPLIN & KELLY, P.A. CHAUDRY, MUJTABA M

skoner, boston scientific

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REVERSED
1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1611 Ex Parte Kleinwaechter 11225949 - (D) McCOLLUM 103 THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY PURDY, KYLE A

1612 Ex Parte Guilford et al 11163979 - (D) JENKS 112(2)/103 Daneker, McIntire, Schumm, Prince, Manning & Widmann, P.C. Kishore, Gollamudi

3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3694 Ex Parte Hyde et al 12004094 - (D) KIM 103 37 C.F.R. § 41.50(b) 102 IV - SUITER SWANTZ PC LLO ABDI, KAMBIZ

3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3753 Ex Parte Greene et al 11383513 - (D) WOOD 112(1)/103 MacMillan, Sobanski & Todd, LLC MCCALISTER, WILLIAM M

3761 Ex Parte Tomes et al 11557423 - (D) GRIMES 103 COX SMITH MATTHEWS INCORPORATED HANRAHAN, BENEDICT L

AFFIRMED-IN-PART
1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1783 Ex Parte Sturley 10977592 - (D) PRAISS 112(1) 103 Michael D. Wiggins KHATRI, PRASHANT J

AFFIRMED
1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1612 Ex Parte Johnson et al 10705481 - (D) JENKS 103 K&L Gates LLP ROBERTS, LEZAH

1643 Ex Parte Karbassi et al 11694370 - (D) FREDMAN 103 MCTAVISH PATENT FIRM Holleran, Anne

“Expected beneficial results are evidence of obviousness of a claimed invention. Just as unexpected beneficial results are evidence of unobviousness.” In re Skoner, 517 F.2d 947, 950 (CCPA 1975).

1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1789 Ex Parte Corrigan 11650285 - (D) GARRIS 112(2)/112(1)/103 THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY KING, FELICIA C

2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2128 Ex Parte Eerd et al 11358597 - (D) WINSOR 102 HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY PATEL, SHAMBHAVI K

2174 Ex Parte Retlich 10954128 - (D) DIXON 103 Rockwell Automation, Inc./FY KUMAR, ANIL N

2179 Ex Parte Ahlert et al 11138689 - (D) KOHUT 103 SAP / FINNEGAN, HENDERSON LLP HASSAN, RASHEDUL

2400 Networking, Mulitplexing, Cable, and Security
2487 Ex Parte Kessler et al 09841140 - (D) ZECHER 103 THOMSON MULTIMEDIA LICENSING INC. CZEKAJ, DAVID J

2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2824 Ex Parte Roohparvar 11127619 - (D) COURTENAY 112(1)/103 LEFFERT JAY & POLGLAZE, P.A. KING, DOUGLAS

“Combining two embodiments disclosed adjacent to each other in a prior art patent does not require a leap of inventiveness.” Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. v. Cordis Corp., 554 F.3d 982, 991 (Fed. Cir. 2009).

3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3693 Ex Parte MacKouse 11104959 - (D) TURNER 112(1)/103 FOLEY & LARDNER NORMAN, SAMICA L

3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3761 Ex Parte D'ADDARIO et al 12144932 - (D) PRATS 103 THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY ZALUKAEVA, TATYANA