REVERSED

1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
Ex Parte Sato OWENS 102(e)/103(a) HAUPTMAN KANESAKA BERNER PATENT AGENTS, LLP

Ex Parte McDaniel et al NAGUMO 103(a) FLETCHER YODER (CHEVRON PHILLIPS)

Ex Parte McAllister et al OWENS 103(a) CRYOVAC, INC.

See In re Warner, 379 F.2d 1011, 1017 (CCPA 1967) ("A rejection based on section 103 clearly must rest on a factual basis, and these facts must be interpreted without hindsight reconstruction of the invention from the prior art").

2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
Ex Parte Allen et al RUGGIERO 102(e) Pamela R. Crocker EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY

3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Designs
Ex Parte Beckmann et al ADAMS 112(1)/103(a) MCGLEW & TUTTLE, PC

Ex Parte Hagiwara et al SILVERBERG 112(2)/102(b) SUGHRUE-265550

Ex Parte Wolf MILLS 103(a) QUARLES & BRADY LLP

NUIJTEN - AFFIRMED-IN-PART

2100 Computer Architecture and Software
Ex Parte Newport et al LUCAS 102(b)/101 37 C.F.R. § 41.50(b) IBM CORPORATION

See, e.g., In re Nuijten, 500 F.3d 1346, 1359 (Fed. Cir. 2007). Ex Parte Hartmann, No. 2006-1607, 2006 WL 2700810, at 4 (B.P.A.I. 2006) (non- precedential). ‘Signals’ are not statutory subject matter. See also "Interim Guidelines for Examination of Patent Applications for Patent Subject Matter Eligibility," 1300 Off. Gaz. Pat. Office 142, Annex IV(c) (Nov. 22, 2005).

AFFIRMED-IN-PART

2600 Communications
Ex Parte Yamamoto HAIRSTON 102(e)/103(a) OBLON, SPIVAK, MCCLELLAND MAIER & NEUSTADT, L.L.P.

Ex Parte Ammon et al MARTIN 102(b)/103(a) VERIZON

3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
Ex Parte Blum LEE 112(2)/103(a) WENDEROTH, LIND & PONACK, L.L.P.

Ex Parte Allen et al MOHANTY 102(b)/103(a) HEWLETT –PACKARD COMPANY