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

Friday, January 22, 2010

REVERSED

3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
Ex Parte Brasz et al BAHR 103(a) MARJAMA MULDOON BLASIAK & SULLIVAN LLP

Ex Parte Gunderson KERINS 102(b)/103(a) FELLERS, SNIDER, BLANKENSHIP, BAILEY & TIPPENS, P.C.

Ex Parte Mann et al PATE III 103(a) HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY

AFFIRMED-IN-PART

2100 Computer Architecture and Software
Ex Parte Averill et al DIXON 103(a) ROBERT R. WILLIAMS IBM CORPORATION

3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
Ex Parte Ernest et al MOHANTY 101/112(2)/102(a)/102(e) George R. Pettit Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

Ex Parte Foster et al HORNER 102(b)/103(a) QUINN LAW GROUP, PLLC

Appellants also contend that Kundermann teaches away from the axial groove of claim 1. App. Br. 15-16. Because teaching away is irrelevant to anticipation, this argument is unpersuasive. See Seachange Int'l, Inc. v. C-COR, Inc., 413 F.3d 1361, 1380 (Fed. Cir. 2005).

Ex Parte Hance et al HORNER 102(b)/103(a) KNOBBE MARTENS OLSON & BEAR LLP