1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
Ex Parte Rinker et al SCHEINER 103(a) JOHNSON & JOHNSON
Ex Parte Fulton et al PRATS 103(a) DEWITT ROSS & STEVENS SC
Ex Parte Houze FREDMAN 103(a) FOLEY AND LARDNER LLP
Ex Parte Houze FREDMAN 103(a) FOLEY AND LARDNER, LLP
Ex Parte Houze FREDMAN 103(a) FOLEY AND LARDNER LLP
Ex Parte Orihashi et al GRIMES 103(a) OBLON, SPIVAK, MCCLELLAND MAIER & NEUSTADT, L.L.P.
2100 Computer Architecture and Software
Ex Parte Anchier COURTENAY 103(a) FENWICK & WEST LLP
Ex Parte Bigus et al BARRETT 102(b)/103(a) IBM CORPORATION
2600 Communications
Ex Parte Itagi et al NAPPI 103(a) LARA A. NORTHROP PIETRAGALLO, BOSICK & GORDON
3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
Ex Parte Classen et al HORNER 103(a) BSH HOME APPLIANCES CORPORATION
Ex Parte Feeley TURNER 102(b) HODGSON RUSS LLP
Ex Parte Webster STAICOVICI 102(b)/103(a) OLIFF & BERRIDGE, PLC
Where the proposed modification would render the prior art invention being modified unsatisfactory for its intended purpose, the proposed modification would not have been obvious. See Tec Air Inc. v. Denso Mfg.Mich. Inc., 192 F.3d 1353, 1360 (Fed. Cir. 1999); In re Gordon, 733 F.2d 900, 902 (Fed. Cir. 1984). "A reference may be said to teach away when a person of ordinary skill, upon [examining] the reference, would be discouraged from following the path set out in the reference, or would be led in a direction divergent from the path that was taken by the applicant." In re Gurley, 27 F.3d 551, 553 (Fed. Cir. 1994).
Gurley, In re, 27 F.3d 551, 31 USPQ2d 1130 (Fed. Cir. 1994). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2123, 2145
3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
Ex Parte McLisky O’NEILL 103(a) S.C. JOHNSON & SON, INC.
AFFIRMED-IN-PART
1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
Ex Parte Lorens et al PRATS 102(b)/103(a) KLARQUIST SPARKMAN, LLP
2100 Computer Architecture and Software
Ex Parte Andreev et al LUCAS 102(e)/103(a) SCHMEISER, OLSEN & WATTS
3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
Ex parte BUFFALOSTONE, INC. LEE 112(2)/103(a) SANTANGELO LAW OFFICES, P.C.
Ex Parte Feeley et al TURNER 102(b)/103(a) 37 C.F.R. § 41.50(b) HODGSON RUSS LLP