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

Thursday, December 24, 2009

REVERSED

1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
Ex Parte Logtenberg SCHEINER 112(1) TRASKBRITT, P.C.

“The purpose of the written description requirement is to prevent an applicant from later asserting that he invented that which he did not.” Amgen, Inc. v. Hoechst Marion Roussel, Inc. , 314 F.3d 1313, 1330 (Fed. Cir. 2003).

Amgen, Inc. v. Hoechst Marion Roussel, Inc., 126 F. Supp. 2d 69, 57 USPQ2d 1449 (D. Mass. 2001). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706.04

Ex Parte Moreland et al ADAMS 102(b)/103(a) BUTZEL LONG

1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering

Ex Parte Phillips COLAIANNI 102(b)/103(a) MCNEES WALLACE & NURICK LLC

Ex Parte Boronkay et al FRANKLIN 102(b)/103(a) TOWNSEND AND TOWNSEND AND CREW, LLP

2400 Networking, Mulitplexing, Cable, and Security

Ex Parte Work BARRETT 102(b)/103(a) SONNENSCHEIN NATH & ROSENTHAL LLP

3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
Ex Parte Rhoads FETTING 112(2)/103(a) 37 C.F.R. § 41.50(b) DIGIMARC CORPORATION

3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
Ex Parte Yang et al MILLS 102(e)/103(a) VIDAS, ARRETT & STEINKRAUS, P.A.

The claims are not to be confined to the embodiments found in the Specification, and it is improper to import limitations from the Specification into the claims. In re Trans Texas Holdings Corp. , 498 F.3d 1290, 1299 (Fed. Cir. 2007).

Trans Texas Holdings Corp., In re, 498 F.3d 1290, 83 USPQ2d 1835 (Fed. Cir. 2007) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2286, 2686.04

As set forth in In re Hiniker Co. , 150 F.3d 1362, 1369 (Fed. Cir. 1998), "[t]he name of the game is the claim."

Hiniker Co., In re, 150 F.3d 1362, 47 USPQ2d 1523 (Fed. Cir. 1998) . . . .
2106, 2242, 2258, 2258.01, 2642

AFFIRMED-IN-PART

2400 Networking, Mulitplexing, Cable, and Security
Ex Parte Nadooshan et al HAIRSTON 101/102(b)/103(a) AVAYA DEMONT & BREYER, LLC