Reversed
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1631 Jingwen Yao 14471825 HARDMAN 101 SUGHRUE MION, PLLC DEJONG, ERIC S
Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2422 Jinman Kang et al. 15500657 NAPPI 103 HP Inc. NATNAEL, PAULOS M
Tech Center 2600 Communications
2658 O'DELL, Sean et al. 14059306 BELISLE 101 DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC. c/o Patterson & Sheridan, LLP SAINT CYR, LEONARD
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3771 BAKER, Randal S. et al. 14518414 OSINSKI 102/103 Gardner, Linn, Burkhart & Ondersma LLP DAVID, SHAUN L
Appellant maintains that the claims of the present application “are indeed consonant with the line of demarcation set forth in the restriction requirement and species election requirement so the non-statutory double patenting rejection is improper and should be reversed.” Id. at 21.
Consonance requires that the line of demarcation between the “independent and distinct inventions” that prompted the restriction requirement be maintained. Though the claims may be amended, they must not be so amended as to bring them back over the line imposed in the restriction requirement. Where that line is crossed the prohibition of the third sentence of Section 121 does not apply.
Gerber Garment Technology, Inc. v. Lectra Systems, Inc., 916 F.2d 683, 688 (Fed.Cir.1990). “The corollary to this Court’s statement in Gerber Garment is that new or amended claims in a divisional application are entitled to the benefit of § 121 if the claims do not cross the line of demarcation drawn around the invention elected in the restriction requirement.” Symbol Techs., Inc. v. Opticon, Inc., 935 F.2d 1569, 1578 (Fed. Cir. 1991).
Affirmed-in-Part
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2454 ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION 14158994 LEE 103 Kraguljac Law Group/Oracle HACKENBERG, RACHEL J
Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3792 Bernd Edler et al. 12067222 DOUGAL 103 112(2) SCHOPPE, ZIMMERMANN , STOCKELER & ZINKLER C/O KEATING & BENNETT, LLP WEHRHEIM, LINDSEY GAIL
Affirmed
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1732 MOLECULAR REBAR DESIGN, LLC 15482304 HASTINGS 103 Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP/HAK TX GREGORIO, GUINEVER S
1743 ESSENTRA FILTER PRODUCTS DEVELOPMENT CO. PTE. LTD 14403364 RANGE 103 FLYNN THIEL, P.C. DARNELL, BAILEIGH K
Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2154 Thorben Christopher. Primke et al. 15289711 MCKONE 103 OTDP Jordan IP Law, LLC ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S
2166 Christopher Beard et al. 13155166 STRAUSS 101 S.C. JOHNSON & SON, INC. HARPER, ELIYAH STONE
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2435 Aissi, Selim 14012597 DIRBA 101 KILPATRICK TOWNSEND & STOCKTON LLP/VISA BEHESHTI SHIRAZI, SAYED ARESH
2461 QUALCOMM Incorporated 14738598 MORGAN 102/103 Loza & Loza, LLP/Qualcomm BEDNASH, JOSEPH A
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3683 Lindsay, Robert Taaffe. et al. 13533625 HAGY 112(1)/103 101/103 Facebook/Fenwick TORRICO-LOPEZ, ALAN
3691 Edmund H. Louie et al. 12549577 STRAUSS 101 JPMorgan Chase / Greenblum & Bernstein AKINTOLA, OLABODE
3693 John S. Eberhardt et al. 12895598 STRAUSS 101 ARENT FOX LLP MERCHANT, SHAHID R
Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3741 UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION 15011762 PESLAK 112(2)/103 CARLSON, GASKEY & OLDS/PRATT & WHITNEY CHENG, STEPHANIE S
3793 KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V 14415825 CAPP 112(2)/103 PHILIPS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & STANDARDS MATTSON, SEAN D
Rehearing
Denied
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3785 John Power et al. 12583256 WOOD 103 NEKTAR THERAPEUTICS LOUIS, LATOYA M
