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REVERSED
Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3765 Ex Parte McCrane 12842362 - (D) WIEKER 102/103 Law Offices of Edward S. Wright HADEN, SALLY CLINE

AFFIRMED
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1644 Ex Parte Goldenberg et al 13214767 - (D) FREDMAN 112(1) 103 Rossi, Kimms & McDowell LLP SCHWADRON, RONALD B

Feldman 2010, van Holten, and Vierboom are post filing date art. However, references that are published “after the filing date of appellant’s application . . . are not, therefore, evidence of subject matter known to ‘any person skilled in the art’ as required by 35 U.S.C. § 112, paragraph 1.” In re Gunn, 537 F.2d 1123, 1128 (CCPA 1976).

Gunn, In re, 537 F.2d 1123, 190 USPQ 402 (CCPA 1976) 2164.05(a) , 2164.06(c) , 2164.06 , 2164.06(a)

Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1711 Ex Parte Jerg et al 13059074 - (D) OWENS 103 BSH Home Appliances Corporation KO, JASON Y

1761 Ex Parte GHOSH et al 14160807 - (D) HASTINGS dissenting NAGUMO 103 WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION - MD 3601 DELCOTTO, GREGORY R

Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2128 Ex Parte Madsen et al 12775392 - (D) FRAHM 103 Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP DAY, HERNG DER

2176 Ex Parte Padala et al 13307730 - (D) MacDONALD 103 VERIZON MILLS, FRANK D

Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2828 Ex Parte Kisin et al 13014002 - (D) OWENS 112(1) 103 BLAKELY SOKOLOFF TAYLOR & ZAFMAN HAGAN, SEAN P

2899 Ex Parte Du 13765080 - (D) KENNEDY 103 W&T/Qualcomm PHAM, THANH V

 If we were to adopt the Appellant’s position, it appears that claim 1 and claim 213 would be coterminous in scope. See Seachange Int'l, Inc. v. C-COR, Inc., 413 F.3d 1361, 1369 (Fed. Cir. 2005) (“[T]here is still a presumption that two independent claims have different scope when different words or phrases are used in those claims.”).

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3669 Ex Parte Profitt-Brown et al 12985492 - (D) BROWNE 103 BROOKS KUSHMAN P.C./FGTL DO, TRUC M

REHEARING

DENIED
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1745 Ex Parte Getschel et al 14363132 - (R) GAUDETTE 103 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY BELL, WILLIAM P

seachange, tec air, haruna, gordon

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REVERSED 
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1786 Ex Parte Stoessel et al 11718692 - (D) WILSON 103 NOVAK DRUCE CONNOLLY BOVE + QUIGG LLP CLARK, GREGORY D

Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2854 Ex Parte Preisner et al 11578085 - (D) WARREN 103 LEYDIG VOIT & MAYER, LTD SIMMONS, JENNIFER E

2882 Ex Parte HOLT 11419793 - (D) WARREN 102(e) FITCH EVEN TABIN & FLANNERY, LLP CORBETT, JOHN M

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3652 Ex Parte Chepurny et al 11791916 - (D) HOFFMANN 102 THE WEBB LAW FIRM, P.C. CHIN, PAUL T

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3723 Ex Parte Vosbikian et al 12700041 - (D) WOODS 102/103 ARCHER & GREINER, P.C. SCRUGGS, ROBERT J

AFFIRMED-IN-PART 
Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3633 Ex Parte Bullinger 10697788 - (D) WOODS 103 102/103 MERCHANT & GOULD PC A, PHI DIEU TRAN

Since teaching away is irrelevant to anticipation, the argument is not probative of any error with respect to the rejection of claim 8 as being anticipated by Knudson. See Seachange Intern., Inc. v. C-COR, Inc. 413 F.3d 1361, 1380 (Fed. Cir. 2005).
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“A reference may be said to teach away when a person of ordinary skill, upon reading the reference . . . would be led in a direction divergent from the path that was taken by the applicant.” In re Haruna, 249 F.3d 1327, 1335 (Fed. Cir. 2001) (quoting Tec Air, Inc. v. Denso Mfg. Mich. Inc., 192 F.3d 1353, 1360 (Fed. Cir. 1999)). Furthermore, if the proposed modification would render the prior art invention being modified unsatisfactory for its intended purpose, then there is no suggestion or motivation to make the proposed modification. In re Gordon, 733 F.2d 900, 902 (Fed. Cir. 1984).

Gordon, In re, 733 F.2d 900, 221 USPQ 1125 (Fed. Cir. 1984) 2143.01 , 2144.08

AFFIRMED 
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1628 Ex Parte Xu 12102237 - (D) POLLOCK 103 37 C.F.R. § 41.50(b) 103 NOVAK DRUCE CONNOLLY BOVE + QUIGG LLP (Southern Research Institute) PAGONAKIS, ANNA

Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering

1735 Ex Parte Kikuchi et al 11883959 - (D) HANLON 103 BIRCH STEWART KOLASCH & BIRCH, LLP YUEN, JACKY

1791 Ex Parte Murray et al 10498130 - (D) HASTINGS 103 SIM & MCBURNEY WATTS, JENNA A

Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2158 Ex Parte Martinez et al 12768112 - (D) WORMMEESTER 103 DeLIO, PETERSON & CURCIO, LLC SHANMUGASUNDARAM, KANNAN

2173 Ex Parte Kretz et al 12099541 - (D) FREDMAN 103 MYERS BIGEL SIBLEY & SAJOVEC, P.A. DURKIN, JAMES T

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2463 Ex Parte Absillis et al 11745001 - (D) HOMERE 103 CAPITOL PATENT & TRADEMARK LAW FIRM, PLLC HOPKINS, MATTHEW A

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2643 Ex Parte Nordstrom et al 12059189 - (D) CHUNG 103 MYERS BIGEL SIBLEY & SAJOVEC, P.A. SHEN, QUN

Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2844 Ex Parte Hering et al 12398266 - (D) DELMENDO 103 NSIP LAW LUONG, HENRY T

REEXAMINATION

AFFIRMED-IN-PART
Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2818 SIDENSE CORP. Requester and Respondent v. KILOPASS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Patent Owner and Appellant Ex Parte 6777757 et al 10/133,704 95001468 - (D) WEINBERG 102 102/103 PERKINS COIE LLP - SEA General THIRD PARTY REQUESTER: KILPATRICK TOWNSEND & STOCKTON LLP ANDUJAR, LEONARDO original HO, TU TU V

AFFIRMED
Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3722 Ex parte SGS TOOL COMPANY Ex Parte 7,306,408 B2 et al 11/420,874 90012742 - (D) BROWNE 112(2)/103 37 C.F.R. § 41.50(b) 103 HAHN LOESER & PARKS, LLP GELLNER, JEFFREY L original FRIDIE JR, WILLMON

seachange

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REVERSED
Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3621 Ex Parte Krig et al 11775597 - (D) MEDLOCK 103 Broadcom/BHGL ZELASKIEWICZ, CHRYSTINA E

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design

3782 Ex Parte Wiedmeyer 11985102 - (D) SCANLON 102/103 PACTIV CORPORATION c/o NIXON PEABODY LLP DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R

We initially note that “[t]eaching away is irrelevant to anticipation.” Seachange Int’l, Inc. v. C-COR, Inc., 413 F.3d 1361, 1380 (Fed. Cir. 2005).  Nevertheless, we agree with Appellant that Morita does not disclose dividing the embossed paper sheet 24 into first and second middle layer blanks.
HARMON 3: 34a; 6: 173, 189; 8: 58; 13: 51a, 83


AFFIRMED
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1781 Ex Parte Gabor 12179972 - (D) OWENS 103 Max Era Inc. c/o Dacheng Law Office, LLP KHAN, TAHSEEN

Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software

2167 Ex Parte Hartman 11868203 - (D) SHIANG 103 Yudell Isidore Ng Russell PLLC BADAWI, SHERIEF

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security

2478 Ex Parte Klaghofer et al 10490526 - (D) WINSOR 103 Siemens Corporation ALI, FARHAD

Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components

2898 Ex Parte Yeh et al 11118309 - (D) TIMM 112(1)/102(e)/103 MACRONIX C/O HAYNES BEFFEL & WOLFELD LLP HU, SHOUXIANG

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design

3776 Ex Parte Stewart 11708742 - (D) PLENZLER 103 ONOFRIO LAW KALACH, BRIANNE E

REHEARING

DENIED 

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review

3624 Ex Parte Joa et al 12211987 - (R) FETTING 103 Weiss & Arons, LLP FIELDS, BENJAMIN S

biogen, seachange, depuy spine, orthokinetics

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REVERSED
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1786 Ex Parte Leonard 10474878 - (D) FRANKLIN 102/103 EDWIN D. SCHINDLER SYKES, ALTREV C

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3611 Ex Parte Grogg 12051180 - (D) WOOD 102 Dykema Gossett PLLC KNUTSON, JACOB D

3671 Ex Parte Montgomery et al 11373383 - (D) ABRAMS 102/103 DEERE & COMPANY TROUTMAN, MATTHEW D

AFFIRMED-IN-PART
Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2494 Ex Parte Okunseinde et al 10803590 - (D) NEW 103 103 IBM CORP. (WIP) c/o WALDER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW, P.C. GERGISO, TECHANE

e.g., Biogen Idec, Inc. v. GlaxoSmithKline LLC, No. 2012–1120, 2013 WL 1603360, at *2 (Fed. Cir. April 16, 2013) (Examiner employs “broadest reasonable interpretation” standard in claim interpretation).

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3636 Ex Parte Diller 11771423 - (D) SCANLON 102/103 102 WOOD, HERRON & EVANS, LLP DUNN, DAVID R

With regard to the specific assertion that Whitmyer “teaches away” from interchangeable headrests, we note that “[t]eaching away is irrelevant to anticipation.” Seachange Int'l, Inc. v. CCOR, Inc., 413 F.3d 1361, 1380 (Fed. Cir. 2005).
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However, “the ‘predictable result’ discussed in [KSR Int'l Co. v. Teleflex, Inc., 550 U.S. 398 (2007)] refers not only to the expectation that prior art elements are capable of being physically combined, but also that the combination would have worked for its intended purpose.” DePuy Spine, Inc. v. Medtronic Sofamor Danek, Inc., 567 F.3d 1314, 1326 (Fed. Cir. 2009).

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3771 Ex Parte Kuehn et al 11327050 - (D) SNEDDEN 103 103 BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM USA CORPORATION YU, JUSTINE ROMANG

AFFIRMED
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1619 Ex Parte Glenn et al 10409425 - (D) WALSH 103 THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY VENKAT, JYOTHSNA A

1634 Ex Parte Sharma et al 10727576 - (D) PRATS 103 SUGHRUE MION, PLLC SWITZER, JULIET CAROLINE

Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1711 Ex Parte Classen et al 11642567 - (D) HANLON 103 BSH HOME APPLIANCES CORPORATION KO, JASON Y

1791 Ex Parte Brooker et al 10525189 - (D) SCHAFER 112(2)/103 The BOC Group, Inc. BEKKER, KELLY JO

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2456 Ex Parte Sharma et al 11411853 - (D) DIXON 112(2) 101/102/103 NIXON PEABODY, LLP CHANG, TOM Y

The test for definiteness under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, is whether “those skilled in the art would understand what is claimed when the claim is read in light of the specification.” Orthokinetics, Inc. v. Safety Travel Chairs, Inc., 806 F.2d 1565, 1576 (Fed. Cir. 1986) (citations omitted).

Orthokinetics, Inc. v. Safety Travel Chairs, Inc., 806 F.2d 1565, 1 USPQ2d 1081 (Fed. Cir. 1986)  2173.02,  2173.05(b)

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2645 Ex Parte White et al 10906065 - (D) RUGGIERO 103 Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. MAGLOIRE, VLADIMIR

2661 Ex Parte Popescu-Stanesti et al 11053215 - (D) HUGHES 103 O2MICRO INC C/O MURABITO, HAO & BARNES LLP PETERSON, CHRISTOPHER K

2663 Ex Parte Jung et al 11591435 - (D) HUGHES 102/103 Constellation Law Group, PLLC SPINKS, ANTOINETTE T

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3715 Ex Parte Wattendorf et al 11489551 - (D) DANIELS 103 CAHN & SAMUELS, LLP EGLOFF, PETER RICHARD

REHEARING   DENIED
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1611 Ex Parte Andrews et al 11504150 - (D) MILLS Dissenting ADAMS 103 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY GHALI, ISIS A D

REEXAMINATION

REVERSED
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1743 Ex parte APPLIED BIOSYSTEMS, LLC, Patent Owner and Appellant 90010131 90/010,905 6,814,934 08/968,208 GUEST 102/103 LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION TURNER, SHARON L original SNAY, JEFFREY R

AFFIRMED
Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3711 TAIWAN FULGENT ENTERPRISE CO., LTD. Requester, Appellant v. SHUFFLE MASTER, INC. Patent Owner, Respondent 95001429 6588751 09/690,051 HORNER 102/103 TRASKBRITT, P.C. /SHFL Entertainment JASTRZAB, JEFFREY R original SEWELL, PAUL T

FEDERAL CIRCUIT
 
REVERSED
3305 BIOSIG INSTRUMENTS, INC. v. NAUTILUS, INC. 2012-1289 5,337,753 07/895,936 WALLACH Concurring SCHALL 112(2) Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check LLP Klarquist Sparkman, LLP GETZOW, SCOTT M