REVERSED
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1763 Ex Parte Rukavina et al 11652751 - (D) FRANKLIN 103 PPG Industries, Inc. LEONARD, MICHAEL L
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2666 Ex Parte Serlie 13880858 - (D) JIVANI 103 PHILIPS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & STANDARDS DELANEY, MOLLY K
AFFIRMED-IN-PART
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2451 Ex Parte Sanders et al 10973146 - (D) BUSCH 103 103 41.50 103 Baker Botts L.L.P./Cisco Systems CHOU, ALAN S
AFFIRMED
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1644 Ex Parte Best et al 13773395 - (D) COTTA 103 Prismatic Law Group, PLLC ROONEY, NORA MAUREEN
See, In re Gershon, 372 F.2d 535, 538 (CCPA 1967) (“Since the alleged problem in this case was first recognized by appellants, and others apparently have not yet become aware of its existence, it goes without saying that there could not possibly be any evidence of either a long-felt need in the . . . art for a solution to a problem of dubious existence or failure of others skilled in the art who unsuccessfully attempted to solve a problem of which they were not aware.”).
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1717 Ex Parte GODFROID et al 13924042 - (D) HASTINGS 112(b) 102/103 Carstens & Cahoon, LLP TADESSE, YEWEBDAR T
Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2166 Ex Parte Teinila et al 12164617 - (D) DIXON 102/103 Ditthavong & Steiner, P.C. OBERLY, VAN HONG
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2436 Ex Parte Chinen et al 13465805 - (D) CUTITTA 103 Kunzler Law Group/RSW REZA, MOHAMMAD W
Tech Center 2600 Communications
2658 Ex Parte Dymetman 13572817 - (D) MacDONALD 101 FAY SHARPE / XEROX - ROCHESTER LE, THUYKHANH
Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3617 Ex Parte Clarke et al 12571984 - (D) STEPHENS 103 Caterpillar/ Miller, Matthias & Hull LLP BELLINGER, JASON R
3654 Ex Parte Fargo et al 12377202 - (D) WARNER 103 CARLSON GASKEY & OLDS RIEGELMAN, MICHAEL A
3665 Ex Parte Arnold et al 13411389 - (D) LORIN 103 101 YEE & ASSOCIATES, P.C. SHAAWAT, MUSSA A
Nevertheless, as the Examiner points out, the claimed scheme is similar in character to the ranking of available therapeutic treatment regimens to guide the selection of a therapeutic treatment regimen covered by the claims at issue in SmartGene, Inc. v. Advanced Biological Labs., SA, 555 F. App'x 950 (Fed. Cir.), cert, denied, 135 S. Ct. 58, 190 L. Ed. 2d 32 (2014). There the court found “the mental steps of comparing new and stored information and using rules to identify medical options” to be an abstract idea.
