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

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

REVERSED

1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
Ex Parte Lockwood et al FREDMAN 112(1) MEYERTONS, HOOD, LIVLIN, KOWERT &
GOETZEL P.C.


Ex Parte Papp et al FREDMAN 112(1)/112(2) CRAWFORD MAUNU PLLC

The court has "found adequate written descriptive support for a claimed invention where the disclosure specifies ‘relevant identifying characteristics,’ such as ‘complete or partial structure, other physical and/or chemical properties, functional characteristics when coupled with a known or disclosed correlation between function and structure, or some combination of such characteristics.’" In re Alonso, 545 F.3d 1015, 1022 (Fed. Cir. 2008) (quoting Enzo Biochem, Inc. v. Gen-Probe Inc., 323 F.3d 956, 964 (Fed. Cir. 2002)).

Enzo Biochem, Inc. v. Gen-Probe, Inc., 323 F.3d 956, 63 USPQ2d 1609 (Fed. Cir. 2002).. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2163

1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
Ex Parte Stahl et al GAUDETTE 102(b)/103(a) BACON & THOMAS, PLLC

Ex Parte DiVergilio et al NAPPI 103(a) ESCHWEILER & ASSOCIATES, LLC

2400 Networking, Mulitplexing, Cable, and Security
Ex Parte Parry SIU 112(1)/102(e) HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY

2600 Communications

Ex Parte Tremblay et al KRIVAK 103(a) WOMBLE CARLYLE SANDRIDGE & RICE, PLLC

AFFIRMED-IN-PART

2600 Communications
Ex Parte Dietz et al HOFF 103(a) IBM CORPORATION