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REVERSED
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1768 Ex Parte Ashmore et al 13490588 - (D) OWENS 103 ROHM AND HAAS COMPANY c/o The Dow Chemical Company CHANG, JOSEPHINE L

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2649 Ex Parte HRABAK 14100051 - (D) ENGLE 103 LKGLOBAL (GM) JUSTUS, RALPH H

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3629 Ex Parte Muller et al 11851243 - (D) FETTING 103 GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP (SV) JASMIN, LYNDA C

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3738 Ex Parte Janssen et al 13505239 - (D) LAVIER 102/103 HOLLAND & HART WILLSE, DAVID H

AFFIRMED-IN-PART
Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2845 Ex Parte SHEN et al 14949423 - (D) RANGE 102 102/103 Patent Capital Group - Analog NGUYEN, LINH V

AFFIRMED
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1611 Ex Parte Horne et al 13880515 - (D) SMITH 103 ALLERGAN, INC. LOVE, TREVOR M

Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1767 Ex Parte Wang et al 13669537 - (D) HASTINGS 102/103 PPG Industries, Inc. SALVITTI, MICHAEL A

1786 Ex Parte Chang et al 13816906 - (D) OWENS 103 CARLSON GASKEY & OLDS TATESURE, VINCENT

Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2123 Ex Parte Felke et al 14060657 - (D) WINSOR 101 HONEYWELL/FOGG PIERRE LOUIS, ANDRE

2163 Ex Parte Zheng et al 13652386 - (D) STEPHENS 103 Peninsula Patent Group DEWAN, KAMAL K

2168 Ex Parte Peretz et al 13335860 - (D) FRAHM 103 HICKMAN PALERMO BECKER BINGHAM LLP MOBIN, HASANUL

2191 Ex Parte Liu et al 14520916 - (D) KUMAR 103 Trellis IP Law Group/Oracle BROPHY, MATTHEW J

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2666 Ex Parte Minezawa et al 13378974 - (D) FRAHM 103 BIRCH, STEWART, KOLASCH & BIRCH, LLP HUNG, YUBIN

2668 Ex Parte McDunn et al 14961224 - (D) KUMAR 103 Burrus Intellectual Property Law Group YANG, QIAN

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3621 Ex Parte Liu et al 13749557 - (D) CHUNG 102 101 Facebook/Fenwick ELCHANTI, TAREK

3623 Ex Parte Faulkenberg et al 13682286 - (D) JEFFERY 101 Target Brands Inc. ROSS, SCOTT M

Moreover, the mere fact that the Examiner has not presented specific claim limitations that resulted in withdrawing an obviousness rejection does not overcome a § 101 rejection. "[P]atent-eligibility does not tum on ease of execution or obviousness of application. Those are questions that are examined under separate provisions of the Patent Act." Rapid Litig. Mgmt. Ltd. v. CellzDirect, Inc., 827 F.3d 1042, 1052 (Fed. Cir. 2016) (citing Mayo, 566 U.S. at 89--90)

3625 Ex Parte Drew et al 13634772 - (D) FETTING 101 SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER & HAMPTON LLP (DXC) KAUFMANN, MATTHEW J

3626 Ex Parte Brackett 11684228 - (D) FETTING 101/103 SHOOK, HARDY & BACON L.L.P. REYES, REGINALD R

3685 Ex Parte Moskowitz 13826858 - (D) FETTING 112(1) 101/103 NEIFELD IP LAW, PC OBEID, MAMON A

3686 Ex Parte Morrissey et al 13426935 - (D) BUI 101/103 M&B IP Analysts, LLC GORT, ELAINE L

3692 Ex Parte Joplin 14169819 - (D) FETTING 103 101/103 Ballard Spahr LLP GAW, MARK H

3693 Ex Parte Nonaka 12596564 - (D) AMUNDSON 101/103 LEX IP MEISTER, PLLC CHAKRAVART!, ARUNAVA

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3715 Ex Parte Hsiao et al 13614189 - (D) KNIGHT 101 RYAN, MASON & LEWIS, LLP GISHNOCK, NIKOLAI A

3715 Ex Parte Hsiao et al 13153673 - (D) KNIGHT 101 RYAN, MASON & LEWIS, LLP GISHNOCK, NIKOLAI A

3744 Ex Parte Rosenlund et al 13368814 - (D) HOELTER 103 HARNESS, DICKEY & PIERCE, P.L.C. TRPISOVSKY, JOSEPH F

3782 Ex Parte Cox et al 14095067 - (D) HOSKINS 103 OTDP ZIP Group PLLC - IBM Storage MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS

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REVERSED
Tech Center 2600 Communications
2661 Ex Parte Mor et al 13765706 - (D) HAGY 103 41.50 103 D. KLIGLER I.P. SERVICES LTD. MONK, MARK T

AFFIRMED-IN-PART
Tech Center 2600 Communications
2677 Ex Parte Ganesan et al 13445479 - (D) CUTITTA 103 112(1) HP Inc. SHAH, BHARATKUMAR S

AFFIRMED
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1611 Ex Parte Breitenbach et al 12297734 - (D) RANGE 102/103 Abel Law Group, LLP CHANNAVAJJALA, LAKSHMI SARADA

1674 Ex Parte Hayes et al 13748964 - (D) SCHNEIDER 101 Larson & Anderson, LLC CHONG, KIMBERLY

35 U.S.C. § 101 states that “[w]hoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.”   The Supreme Court has “long held that this provision contains an important implicit exception: Laws of nature, natural phenomena, and abstract ideas are not patentable.”  Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank Intern., 134 S. Ct. 2347, 2354 (2014). 

The Federal Circuit has summarized the Supreme Court’s two-part test for distinguishing between claims to patent-ineligible exceptions, and claims to patent-eligible applications of those exceptions, as follows: 

Step one asks whether the claim is “directed to one of [the] patent-ineligible concepts.” [Alice, 134 S. Ct. at 2354].  If the answer is no, the inquiry is over: the claim falls within the ambit of § 101.  If the answer is yes, the inquiry moves to step two, which asks whether, considered both individually and as an ordered combination, “the additional elements ‘transform the nature of the claim’ into a patent-eligible application.”  Id. (quoting Mayo [Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Labs, Inc., 132 S. Ct. 1289, 1297 (2012)]).   

Step two is described “as a search for an ‘inventive concept.’” Id. (quoting Mayo, 132 S.Ct. at 1294).  At step two, more is required than “well-understood, routine, conventional activity already engaged in by the scientific community,” which fails to transform the claim into “significantly more than a patent upon the” ineligible concept itself. Mayo, 132 S.Ct. at 1294. 

Rapid Litigation Mgmt. Ltd. v. CellzDirect, Inc., 827 F.3d 1042, 1047 (Fed. Cir. 2016) (paragraphing added). 

Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank Int'l, 573 U.S. _, 134 S. Ct. 2347, 110 USPQ2d 1976 (2014) 2103 , 2106

Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Labs., Inc., 566 U.S. __, 132 S.Ct. 1289, 101 USPQ2d 1961 (2012) 2103 , 2106

Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1781 Ex Parte Shellenberger 13770541 - (D) INGLESE 103 SEALED AIR CORPORATION SABERI, JASPER

Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2175 Ex Parte Shibata 13800753 - (D) DANG 103 BGL/Alpine CHOWDHURY, RAYEEZ R

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2466 Ex Parte Zhou et al 12914059 - (D) PINKERTON 103 BAKER BOTTS L.L.P. LINDENBAUM, ALAN LOUIS

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2688 Ex Parte Nazarov et al 11475685 - (D) KUMAR 103 HolzerlPLaw, PC RENNER, CRAIG A

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3695 Ex Parte De et al 11755288 - (D) MEDLOCK 102/103 101 Baker Botts LLP KANG, IRENE S

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3724 Ex Parte Racov et al 13379707 - (D) BROWNE 112(1) 103 Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP I LEE, LAURA MICHELLE

REHEARING

DENIED
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1725 Ex Parte Jennings 13789803 - (D) DERRICK 103 BROOKS CUSHMAN P.C./FGTL LEONG, JONATHAN G