REVERSED

1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1741 Ex Parte Bartsch 10/625,582 FRANKLIN 112(2)/103(a) STRIKER, STRIKER & STENBY EXAMINER DEHGHAN, QUEENIE S

1781 Ex Parte Graham et al 11/405,143 FREDMAN 103(a) STITES & HARBISON, PLLC EXAMINER BEKKER, KELLY JO

2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2159 Ex Parte Paller et al 10/832,546 HOMERE 102(b)/103(a) ALBERTDHAND LLP EXAMINER SPIELER, WILLIAM

2600 Communications
2613 Ex Parte Aoki et al 10/627,548 MacDONALD 102(e)/103(a) BAKER BOTTS L.L.P. EXAMINER CURS, NATHAN M

AFFIRMED

1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1786 Ex Parte Lunsford et al 11/348,895 GARRIS 112(2)/102(b)/103(a) FERRELLS, PLLC EXAMINER CHOI, PETER Y

1733 Ex Parte Merrill et al 11/235,494 GARRIS 102(b)/103(a)/obviousness-type double patenting SIEMENS CORPORATION EXAMINER KESSLER, CHRISTOPHER S

2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2858 Ex Parte White et al 11/561,463 MacDONALD 103(a) PATTERSON & SHERIDAN, LLP - - APPM/TX EXAMINER NGUYEN, HOAI AN D

3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3714 Ex Parte Blankstein 11/227,869 PATE III 103(a) NIXON PEABODY LLP EXAMINER COBURN, CORBETT B

3742 Ex Parte Koenekamp et al 11/368,059 McCARTHY 101/112(2)/103(a) MILLER IP GROUP, PLC GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION EXAMINER CAMPBELL, THOR S

REHEARING

DENIED

2600 Communications
2618 Ex Parte Scherschel et al 10/931,172 MACDONALD 103(a) FITCH EVEN TABIN & FLANNERY EXAMINER PEREZ, ANGELICA

Combining known elements for the purpose of convenience does not impart patentability to the combination. See Anderson’s-Black Rock, 396 U.S. at 61 (“The combination of putting the burner together with the other elements in one machine, though perhaps a matter of great convenience, did not produce a ‘new or different function,’ Lincoln Engineering Co. of Illinois v. Stewart-Warner Corp., 303 U.S. 545, 549, 58 S.Ct. 662, 664, 82 L.Ed. 1008, within the test of validity of combination patents.”).

Anderson’s-Black Rock Inc. v. Pavement Salvage Co., 396 U.S. 57, 163 USPQ 673 (1969). . . . . . . . . . . . .716.01(a), 2141, 2143.01

Lincoln Engineering Co. v. Stewart-Warner Corp., 303 U.S. 545, 37 USPQ 1 (1938). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2173.05(j)