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PTAB.US: Decisions of PTAB Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Monday, September 28, 2009

REVERSED

2100 Computer Architecture and Software
Ex Parte Terechko BLANKENSHIP 103(a) 37 C.F.R. § 41.50(b) PHILIPS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & STANDARDS


Ex Parte Binding et al BARRETT 102(b)/103(a) LAW OFFICE OF IDO TUCHMAN (YOR)


2400 Networking, Mulitplexing, Cable, and Security
Ex Parte Krishnan et al BLANKENSHIP 102(b)/103(a) QUALCOMM INCORPORATED


2600 Communications
Ex Parte Emery et al HAIRSTON 102(e)/103(a) CAPITOL PATENT & TRADEMARK LAW FIRM, PLLC


2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
Ex Parte Ohshita et al KRIVAKConcurring Opinion BAUMEISTER 103(a)  ARENT FOX KINTNER PLOTKIN & KAHN, PLLC


“[T]he patent drafter is in the best position to resolve the ambiguity in the patent claims.” Halliburton Energy Servs, Inc. v. M-I LLC, 514 F.3d 1244 at 1255 (Fed. Cir. 2008).


Ex Parte Sidwell WARREN 103(a) OSRAM SYLVANIA INC.


3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
Ex Parte Ryan LORIN 103(a) PITNEY BOWES INC.


The examiner may not, “resort to speculation, unfounded assumptions or hindsight reconstruction to supply deficiencies in its factual basis.” In re Warner, 379 F.2d 1011, 1017 (CCPA 1967), cert.denied, 389 U.S. 1057 (1968).


Warner, In re, 379 F.2d 1011, 154 USPQ 173 (CCPA 1967) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2142

Ex Parte Charquet et al PATE III 112(1)/112(2) DAVIDSON, DAVIDSON & KAPPEL, LLC


Some experimentation, even a considerable amount, is not “undue” if, e.g., it is merely routine, or if the specification provides a reasonable amount of guidance as to the direction in which the experimentation should proceed. In re Wands, 858 F.2d 731, 737 (Fed. Cir. 1988).


Wands, In re, 858 F.2d 731, 8 USPQ2d 1400 (Fed. Cir. 1988) . . . . . . .706.03(a), 706.03(b), 2164.01, 2164.01(a), 2164.06, 2164.06(b)

Ex Parte Schnedl et al PATE, III 102(e)/103(a) ROBERT J SCHNEIDER CHAPMAN & CUTLER


3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Designs
Ex Parte Watts et al LEE 102(b)/103(a) Pamela A. Kachur

AFFIRMED-IN-PART

2100 Computer Architecture and Software
Ex Parte Van Doren et al LUCAS 102(e)/103(a) HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY


2400 Networking, Mulitplexing, Cable, and Security
Ex Parte Houston et al STEPHENS 103(a) HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY


3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
Ex Parte Offerle et al SILVERBERG 103(a) DICKINSON WRIGHT PLLC


Ex Parte Shuder et al LORIN 102(b) 37 C.F.R. § 41.50(b) MHKKG/SUN


Under principles of inherency, when a reference is silent about an asserted inherent characteristic, it ‘must make clear that the missing descriptive matter is necessarily present in the thing described in the reference, and that it would be so recognized by persons of ordinary skill.’ In re Robertson, 169 F.3d 743, 745 (Fed. Cir.1999).


Robertson, In re, 169 F.3d 743, 49 USPQ2d 1949 (Fed. Cir. 1999) . . . . 2112, 2114, 2163, 2163.07(a)


Ex Parte Wu PATE III 103(a) DONALD E. SCHREIBER


Ex Parte Bassey et al LORIN 112(2)/103(a) RUSS WEINZIMMER


3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Designs
Ex Parte Sweeney PATE III 112(1)/102(b)/103(a) FOLEY & LARDNER LLP