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REVERSED
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1735 Ex Parte Gross et al 13399131 - (D) McGEE 102/103 WOLF GREENFIELD & SACKS, P.C. SAAD, ERIN BARRY

Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2128 Ex Parte Xie et al 13649079 - (D) WHITEHEAD JR. 103 HAMILTON DESANCTIS & CHA LLP KU, SHIUH-HUEI P

2161 Ex Parte Taylor 11948732 - (D) SHIANG 103 LOWENSTEIN SANDLER LLP DAYE, CHELCIE L

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2483 Ex Parte Narroschke et al 12160418 - (D) BAUMEISTER 102/103 SEED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW GROUP LLP MAHMUD, FARHAN

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2689 Ex Parte FINET 13433761 - (D) SILVERMAN 103 HONEYWELL/WOOD PHILLIPS ALAM, MIRZA F

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3654 Ex Parte Suchecki 12902917 - (D) WORTH 112(2)/103 MCCOY RUSSELL LLP TRUONG, MINH D

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3721 Ex Parte Bernardi 13757823 - (D) HORNER 103 Maginot, Moore & Beck LLP TECCO, ANDREW M

3766 Ex Parte Chapman et al 13791491 - (D) MURPHY 102/103 Lane Powell PC MALAMUD, DEBORAH LESLIE

3775 Ex Parte FRIGG 13221577 - (D) HORNER 103 Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP KU, SI MING

AFFIRMED-IN-PART
Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3769 Ex Parte Addison et al 13243619 - (D) HORNER 102 102 Covidien LP JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING

AFFIRMED
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1633 Ex Parte Gage 11654553 - (D) SCHNEIDER 112(2) 103 MENDELSOHN DUNLEAVY, P.C. HIRIYANNA, KELAGINAMANE T

1674 Ex Parte Roesch et al 13388583 - (D) GRIMES 103 LICATA & TYRRELL P.C. ZARA, JANE J

Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1735 Ex Parte Bochiechio et al 12940080 - (D) INGLESE 103 CARLSON, GASKEY & OLDS/PRATT & WHITNEY YUEN, JACKY

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2473 Ex Parte RIBEIRO et al 13691078 - (D) SMITH 102 Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP Nokia Technologies Oy CHOWDHURY, HARUN UR R

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2657 Ex Parte LEE et al 12831607 - (D) STRAUSS 112(6) 103 GREER, BURNS & CRAIN, LTD SPOONER, LAMONT M

Claim 1 recites three “unit[s]”, the name of each unit (e.g., “a vernacular pronunciation extracting unit”) corresponding to a function to be performed by the “unit” (e.g., “to extract a vernacular pronunciation in response to receipt of a Hanja character string”). These limitations do not include the word “means,” thus, a rebuttable presumption exists these limitations are not means-plus-function limitations. Williamson v. Citrix Online, LLC, 792 F.3d 1339, 1348 (Fed. Cir. 2015). This presumption can be overcome if the limitation “fails to recite sufficiently definite structure or else recites function without reciting sufficient structure for performing that function.” Id. at 1349 (citation and internal quotation marks omitted). Contrary to Appellants argument (Br. 6), the presumption is not a “strong” one.1 As used herein, the term “means for” is replaced by the “nonce  word”2 “unit” thereby connoting one or more generic “black boxes” for performing all of the intended functions recited in claim 1. 

1 Since the filing of Appellants’ Brief, the Federal Circuit has overruled the strong presumption that a limitation lacking the word “means” is not subject to § 112, ¶ 6. Williamson, 792 F.3d at 1349. 

2 Although termed a “nonce word”, we recognize this characterization is somewhat inaccurate, the common meaning being “a word invented and used for a particular occasion.” Morris, W., The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 892. Houghton Mifflin Company (1981). However, the word “unit” does have a generally accepted meaning including “an entire apparatus or the equipment that performs a specific function.” Id. at 1400. Thus, while not a made-up word, on the present facts the word “unit” at most restricts the preceding functional language to an apparatus but not to a particular structure (cf. “a window-mounted air conditioning unit”). Instead, the word “unit” is merely a transition between a shortened description of a function to be performed (e.g., vernacular pronunciation extracting) and the corresponding full description of that function (e.g., apparatus “to extract a vernacular pronunciation in response to receipt of a Hanja character string”). Thus, as used in claim 1, the term “unit” is a “non-structural generic placeholder” that is tantamount to the term “means” because it fails to connote sufficiently definite structure (i.e., a “nonce word”). Cf. Williamson 792 F.3d at 1350.

Williamson v. Citrix Online, 792 F.3d 1339, 115 USPQ2d 1105 (Fed. Cir. 2015) 2144.05 , 2181

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3745 Ex Parte Reinhardt et al 13970483 - (D) STEPINA 103 Bachman & LaPointe, P.C. PRAGER, JESSE M

REHEARING

DENIED
Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2894 Ex Parte Swartz 12932058 - (D) MEDLOCK 101/112(1) Mitchell R. Swartz MONDT, JOHANNES P

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3646 Ex Parte Swartz 09748691 - (D) MEDLOCK 101/112(1)/102/103 Mitchell R. Swartz, ScD, MD, EE KEITH, JACK W

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REVERSED
Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2123 Ex Parte Rhoades et al 11901780 - (D) ENGELS 103 FARJAMI & FARJAMI LLP DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC. CHAD, ANISS

Appellants' system claims are directed to a "converter configured to convert" (claim 7) and a "system configured to convert" (claim 14). App.  Br. 13—16. In the event of further prosecution, we invite the Examiner to consider whether any of the limitations of Appellants' system claims should be interpreted as means-plus-function limitations under 35 U.S.C. SS 1 12, sixth paragraph. See Williamson v. Citrix Online, LLC, 792 F.3d 1339, (Fed. Cir. 2015) ("The standard [for identifying means-plus-function limitations] is whether the words of the claim are understood by persons of ordinary skill in the art to have a sufficiently definite meaning as the name for structure.").

Williamson v. Citrix Online, 792 F.3d 1339, 115 USPQ2d 1105 (Fed. Cir. 2015) 2144.05 , 2181

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2449 Ex Parte Brown et al 12983120 - (D) WINSOR 102/103 OpenPeak Inc. NGUYEN, THUONG

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3617 Ex Parte Marciano 12837746 - (D) BROWNE 103 WOLF GREENFIELD & SACKS, P.C. VENNE, DANIEL V

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3717 Ex Parte Avent et al 12022340 - (D) KINDER 112(2)/102/103 Marsh Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC. HU, KANG

3742 Ex Parte Daniel et al 12428675 - (D) LANEY 102/103 HAHN LOESER / LINCOLN MAYE, AYUB A

3752 Ex Parte Hursen 12605305 - (D) MURPHY 102/103 THE BLK LAW GROUP REIS, RYAN ALEXANDER

AFFIRMED-IN-PART
Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2184 Ex Parte Naylor 13140629 - (D) CURCURI 102/103 103 Patent Portfolio Builders, PLLC MAMO, ELIAS

AFFIRMED
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1618 Ex Parte Di Cosmo et al 12091508 - (D) JENKS 102 103 Mossman, Kumar & Tyler PC CABRAL, ROBERT S

1618 Ex Parte Kouda et al 11165200 - (D) JENKS 103 OBLON, MCCLELLAND, MAIER & NEUSTADT, L.L.P. WESTERBERG, NISSA M

1619 Ex Parte Bell et al 11547576 - (D) PER CURIAM 103 UNILEVER PATENT GROUP ALAWADI, SARAH

Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1732 Ex Parte Chapman 11632610 - (D) HASTINGS 103 W R Grace & Co Conn LI, JUN

Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2114 Ex Parte Echevarria et al 12773843 - (D) MOORE 103 Nelson and Nelson PATEL, KAMINI B

2128 Ex Parte Johnston et al 12771230 - (D) STEPHENS 112(2) 103 SCHLUMBERGER INFORMATION SOLUTIONS JONES, HUGH M

2155 Ex Parte Dorbes et al 12926268 - (D) ENGELS 102/103 HARNESS, DICKEY & PIERCE, P.L.C. TRAN, LOC

2197 Ex Parte Adhikary et al 12882745 - (D) BAIN 102/103/double patenting Kennedy Lenart Spraggins LLP IBM (END-KLS) CHEN, SEN THONG

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2466 Ex Parte Burgio 12913396 - (D) SMITH 102/103 ADDMG - ST (foreign-originated only) LINDENBAUM, ALAN LOUIS

2468 Ex Parte Lundberg 12745051 - (D) MCMILLIN 103 Patents on Demand, P.A. NAWAZ, ASAD M

2486 Ex Parte Parfenov et al 13069731 - (D) STRAUSS 103 LSI CORPORATION WALKER, JARED T

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2657 Ex Parte Reynolds et al 12601878 - (D) BUI concurring HORVATH 103 ALSTON & BIRD LLP KAZEMINEZHAD, FARZAD

2695 Ex Parte Sako et al 11631534 - (D) FRAHM 103 WOLF GREENFIELD & SACKS, P.C. LAMB, CHRISTOPHER RAY

Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2835 Ex Parte HATTORI et al 12478876 - (D) SAADAT 103 BURR & BROWN, PLLC MILLISER, THERON S

2859 Ex Parte Lewis et al 12841998 - (D) FISHMAN 103 FLETCHER YODER (CAMERON INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION) PIGGUSH, AARON C

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3689 Ex Parte Muller et al 11567969 - (D) MEYERS 103 CRGO LAW NGUYEN, THUY-VI THI

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3716 Ex Parte Gomez et al 13165914 - (D) KINDER 103 NIXON PEABODY LLP LIDDLE, JAY TRENT

3788 Ex Parte Quigley et al 13331353 - (D) BAYAT 103 THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY WAY, JAMES R

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REVERSED
Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2423 Ex Parte Legallais et al 12736873 - (D) STEPHENS 103 TUTUNJIAN & BITETTO, P.C. LE, RONG

2444 Ex Parte Kandekar et al 13216517 - (D) SAADAT 102/103 Concert Technology Corporation SHAW, PELING ANDREW

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3624 Ex Parte Schlereth et al 12529068 - (D) SHAH 103 SIEMENS CORPORATION MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL

3668 Ex Parte Walter 13179025 - (D) ASTORINO 103 General Electric Company BEAULIEU, YONEL

AFFIRMED-IN-PART
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1746 Ex Parte Laue et al 13302382 - (D) HEANEY 103 102/103 BRADLEY ARANT BOULT CUMMINGS LLP GOFF II, JOHN L

Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2164 Ex Parte Al-Omari et al 13356056 - (D) STEPHENS 103 103 Hewlett Packard Enterprise CHOI, YUK TING

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2431 Ex Parte Lin et al 12765318 - (D) JEFFERY 103 103 Hewlett Packard Enterprise CHIANG, JASON

Claim 13 recites "a forwarding module, a storage module, and a filtering module." "'Module' is a well-known nonce word that can operate as a substitute for 'means' in the context of [§ 112(f).]" Williamson v. Citrix Online, LLC, 792 F.3d 1339, 1350 (Fed. Cir. 2015) (en banc). The absence of adequate structure corresponding to limitations interpreted under § 112(f) renders those limitations indefinite under § 1 12(b). Id. at 1351—52. We leave to the Examiner to determine whether the modules in claim 13 should be interpreted under § 112(f) and, if so, determine whether the corresponding structure is disclosed adequately. See MPEP § 2181 (I) (9th ed. Rev. 7, Mar. 2014) (providing guidelines to examiners for determining whether a claim limitation invokes § 112(f) and instructing that "module" may invoke § 112(f))

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3687 Ex Parte Sundaresan 12346723 - (D) WIEDER 101/103 112(2) SCHWEGMAN LUNDBERG & WOESSNER/EBAY ADE, OGER GARCIA

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3762 Ex Parte Stahmann et al 13185203 - (D) HORNER 102/103 102 PAULY, DEVRIES SMITH & DEFFNER, L.L.C. FLORY, CHRISTOPHER A

AFFIRMED
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1674 Ex Parte Migawa et al 12527417 - (D) PAULRAJ 102/double patenting 103 Isis Pharmaceuticals/McNeill Baur PLLC SHIN, DANA H

Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2142 Ex Parte Holte 12606944 - (D) STEPHENS 102/103 Andrews Kurth LLP TANK, ANDREW L

2175 Ex Parte Fagans et al 11760684 - (D) WHITEHEAD, JR. 103 FISH & RICHARDSON P.C. (APPLE) LONG, ANDREA NATAE

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2455 Ex Parte Rothschild 12266429 - (D) FISHMAN 101/102/103 Cuenot, Forsythe & Kim, LLC LAZARO, DAVID R

2465 Ex Parte Kadaba et al 11645608 - (D) LENTIVECH 103 HARNESS, DICKEY & PIERCE, P.L.C. HSU, ALPUS

Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2892 Ex Parte Brown et al 12181229 - (D) HEANEY 103 PLANTRONICS, INC. SWAN, GARDNER W.S

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3777 Ex Parte Strommer et al 12874371 - (D) KERINS 103/double patenting DYKEMA GOSSETT PLLC (STJ) CHAO, ELMER M

REEXAMINATION

AFFIRMED
Tech Center 2600 Communications
2603 HM ELECTRONICS, INC. Requester and Respondent v. 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY Patent Owner and Appellant Ex Parte 8,005,455 et al 06/235,276 95002239 - (D) CHEN 102/103 PAULY, DeVRIES SMITH & DEFFINER, L.L.C. THIRD PARTY REQUESTER: FREDRIKSON & BYRON, P.A. original SCHLUMBERGER INDUSTRIES, INC. LAROSE, COLIN M original CHIN, STEPHEN

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REVERSED
Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3685 Ex Parte Rodriguez et al 11818693 - (D) FETTING 112(2)/103 41.50 112(2) Jackson Walker LLP WINTER, JOHN M

As to claims 22–28, we are persuaded by the Appellants’ argument that the Examiner did not overcome the presumption that the limitation “protocol translator for receiving” does not invoke 35 U.S.C. § 112, sixth paragraph. 

It is well established that the use of the term “means” triggers a rebuttable presumption that § 112, ¶ 6 governs the construction of the claim term. Conversely, where, as here, the claim language does not recite the term “means,” we presume that the limitation does not invoke § 112, ¶ 6. However, this presumption can be overcome if the challenger demonstrates that “the claim term fails to ‘recite sufficiently definite structure’ or else recites ‘function without reciting sufficient structure for performing that function.’” The correct inquiry is “whether skilled artisans, after reading the patent, would conclude that a claim limitation is so devoid of structure that the drafter constructively engaged in means-plus-function claiming.” Therefore, “[u]ltimately, whether claim language invokes § 112, ¶ 6 depends on how those skilled in the art would understand the structural significance of that claim language.” 

EnOcean GmbH v. Face Intern. Corp., 742 F.3d 955, 958 (2014) (citations omitted). See also Williamson v. Citrix Online, LLC, No. 2013-1130, 2015 WL 3687459, at *7 (Fed. Cir. June 16, 2015) (en banc) (“we should abandon characterizing as ‘strong’ the presumption that a limitation lacking the word ‘means’ is not subject to § 112, para. 6”). As with the term “receiver” in EnOcean, the term “protocol translator” (i.e., the absence of the term means) presumptively connotes sufficiently definite structure to those of skill in the art. See EnOcean at 960. The Examiner made no finding to rebut that presumption.

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3727 Ex Parte Andersen et al 12087755 - (D) GREENHUT 103 41.50 112(2) HARNESS, DICKEY & PIERCE, P.L.C. RACHUBA, MAURINA T

3752 Ex Parte Esche et al 12368068 - (D) GREENHUT 103 Foley & Lardner LLP REIS, RYAN ALEXANDER

3781 Ex Parte Hawkes 12183357 - (D) MAYBERRY 112(1)/103 HAYES, SOLOWAY P.C. MATHEW, FENN C

AFFIRMED-IN-PART
2131 Ex Parte EL-MAHDY et al 12335077 - (D) KINDER 102 102 Cuenot, Forsythe & Kim, LLC MACKALL, LARRY T

Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2881 Ex Parte Bateman et al 11721260 - (D) OGDEN 102/double patenting 103 Waters Technologies Corporation IPPOLITO, NICOLE MARIE

AFFIRMED
Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2137 Ex Parte Kowa 12148165 - (D) KUMAR 103 HGST C/O WAGNER BLECHER LLP BERTRAM, RYAN

2173 Ex Parte Dunn et al 11446019 - (D) SILVERMAN 103 QUARLES & BRADY LLP HOPE, DARRIN

2179 Ex Parte Alviar et al 11961630 - (D) KAISER 102/103 Shumaker & Sieffert, P.A./Motorola WENG, PEI YONG

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2468 Ex Parte Macauley et al 11970083 - (D) COURTENAY 102/103 MYERS BIGEL SIBLEY & SAJOVEC CHANG, KAI J

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2614 Ex Parte FitzSimmons 12647742 - (D) MCMILLIN 103 HAYNES AND BOONE, LLP HAJNIK, DANIEL F

2623 Ex Parte YUN et al 12500244 - (D) DILLON 103 Jefferson IP Law, LLP ZHOU, HONG

2692 Ex Parte Prados et al 11553666 - (D) KUMAR 103 Slayden Grubert Beard PLLC ABDIN, SHAHEDA A

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3687 Ex Parte Schonhals 10862484 - (D) FETTING 103 Slayden Grubert Beard PLLC REFAI, RAMSEY

REEXAMINATION

DENIED
Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2819 CRESTRON ELECTRONICS, INC. Requester v. LUTRON ELECTRONICS, INC. Patent Owner Ex Parte 8228184 et al 12/371,183 95002079 - (D) JEFFERY 103 OSTROLENK FABER LLP Third Party Requester: David E. Shifren WORJLOH, JALATEE original LE, DON P

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REVERSED 
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1625 Ex Parte WATANABE et al 13081353 - (D) MILLS 103 ANTONELLI, TERRY, STOUT & KRAUS, LLP O DELL, DAVID K

1648 Ex Parte Saffran 11052204 - (D) ADAMS 103 DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP FOLEY, SHANON A

Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1735 Ex Parte Liu et al 11567525 - (D) HANLON 103 SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER & HAMPTON LLP IP, SIKYIN

see also In re Baird, 16 F.3d 380, 382 (Fed. Cir. 1994) (“The fact that a claimed compound may be encompassed by a disclosed generic formula does not by itself render that compound obvious.”); In re Jones, 958 F.2d 347, 350 (Fed. Cir. 1992) (declining to extract from Merck & Co. v. Biocraft Labs., Inc., 874 F.2d 804, 806-09 (Fed. Cir. 1989), the rule that “regardless of how broad, a disclosure of a chemical genus renders obvious any species that happens to fall within it”).

Baird, In re, 16 F.3d 380, 29 USPQ2d 1550 (Fed. Cir. 1994) 2144.05 , 2144.08 , 2163

Jones, In re, 958 F.2d 347, 21 USPQ2d 1941 (Fed. Cir. 1992) 707.07(f) , 2143.01 , 2144 , 2144.05 , 2144.08

Merck & Co. v. Biocraft Laboratories, 874 F.2d 804, 10 USPQ2d 1843 (Fed. Cir. 1989)  716.02(a) ,  2123 ,  2144.05 ,  2144.08

Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2881 Ex Parte Wong et al 11957084 - (D) KRATZ 102/103 VISTA IP LAW GROUP LLP MCCORMACK, JASON L

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3676 Ex Parte LOWDON et al 12570030 - (D) GOODSON 102/103 SCHLUMBERGER OILFIELD SERVICES BOMAR, THOMAS S

This claim interpretation is consistent with a recent decision from the Federal Circuit concerning a “module” claim term. See Williamson v. Citrix Online, LLC, 770 F.3d 1371, 1377–80 (Fed. Cir. Nov. 5, 2014) (holding that district court erred in concluding that “distributed learning control module” is a means-plus-function claim term).

AFFIRMED 
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1671 Ex Parte Hansen et al 12471528 - (D) POLLOCK 103 BAYER MATERIAL SCIENCE LLC SAWYER, JENNIFER C

Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1744 Ex Parte Liu et al 12043850 - (D) DERRICK 103 Tokyo Electron U.S. Holdings, Inc. GRUN, ROBERT J

1787 Ex Parte Sano et al 12083525 - (D) ANKENBRAND 112(1)/103 BGL/Ann Arbor SHOSHO, CALLIE E

Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2159 Ex Parte Zeller et al 10315264 - (D) FISHMAN 112(1)/103 HOFFMAN WARNICK LLC CASANOVA, JORGE A

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2452 Ex Parte Mulligan et al 10043936 - (D) FETTING 103 Ditthavong & Steiner, P.C. DOAN, DUYEN MY

2468 Ex Parte Ben-Ezra et al 11972650 - (D) SAADAT 103 SUGHRUE MION PLLC USPTO CUSTOMER NO WITH IBM/SVL WAQAS, SAAD A

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2644 Ex Parte Syrbe 10539170 - (D) MORGAN 103 Ditthavong & Steiner, P.C. CASCA, FRED A

Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2811 Ex Parte Stahl et al 12001531 - (D) McGRAW 102 37 C.F.R. § 41.50(b) 102 KENYON & KENYON LLP WEBB, VERNON P

2812 Ex Parte Liu et al 11036081 - (D) HOUSEL 103 THE ECLIPSE GROUP LLP ISAAC, STANETTA D

2842 Ex Parte KNOBLINGER et al 12543637 - (D) NAGUMO 103 SpryIP, LLC IFX CHANG, JOSEPH

2842 Ex Parte KNOBLINGER et al 12543629 - (D) NAGUMO 103 SpryIP, LLC IFX CHANG, JOSEPH

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3647 Ex Parte Frederickson 12123420 - (D) STEPINA 102/103 Carlson, Gaskey, & Olds, P.C./Sikorsky BENEDIK, JUSTIN M

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3711 Ex Parte Endo et al 11172793 - (D) JESCHKE 103 Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP GORDEN, RAEANN

3723 Ex Parte Liu 12002436 - (D) MAYBERRY 112(2)/103 MAGINOT, MOORE & BECK, LLP MORGAN, EILEEN P

3731 Ex Parte Tsai 12258339 - (D) POLLOCK 103 Knobbe, Martson, Olson & Bear LLP ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB

REEXAMINATION

AFFIRMED 
Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3632 JAC-RACK, INC. Requester v. UNIRAC, INC. Patent Owner, Appellant Ex Parte Liebendorfer et al 7,260,918 10/116,384 95001727 - (D) SONG 103 CROWELL & MORING LLP Third Party Requester: HARNESS DICKEY & PIERCE, P.L.C. CLARKE, SARA SACHIE original KING, ANITA M