REVERSED
1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1641 Ex Parte Zhang 10/705,109 McCOLLUM 112(1)/103(a) BOZICEVIC, FIELD & FRANCIS LLP EXAMINER GRUN, JAMES LESLIE
2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2128 Ex Parte Walker et al 10/748,364 COURTENAY 103(a) VISTA PRINT USA, INC. EXAMINER JONES, HUGH M
2600 Communications
2629 Ex Parte Young 10/632,348 FRAHM 103(a) KENYON & KENYON LLP EXAMINER
LIANG, REGINA
3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3628 Ex Parte Beabes et al 11/687,035 KIM 103(a) Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC EXAMINER JUNG, ALLEN J
AFFIRMED-IN-PART
2600 Communications
2625 Ex Parte Wiechers 10/635,453 KRIVAK 102(b)/103(a) HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY EXAMINER SINGH, SATWANT K
3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3634 Ex Parte Williams 11/167,701 McCARTHY 112(1)/112(2)/103(a) HUNTON & WILLIAMS LLP EXAMINER JOHNSON, BLAIR M
REEXAMINATION
EXAMINER REVERSED
3900 Central Reexamination Unit (CRU)
2155 Ex Parte 6470405 et al Inter Partes NVIDIA, CORP. Requestor, Appellant v. RAMBUS, INC. Patent Owner, Respondent 95/001,178 EASTHOM obviousness-type double patenting/102(e)/103(a) FINNEGAN, HENDERSON, FARABOW, GARRETT & DUNNER LLP Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, PLLC Third Party Requester: Haynes and Boone, LLP EXAMINER ESCALANTE, OVIDIO original EXAMINER WILEY, DAVID ARMAND
EXAMINER AFFIRMED
3900 Central Reexamination Unit (CRU)
2143 Ex Parte 7287109 et al Inter Partes RAMBUS, INC. Patent Owner v. NVIDIA CORP. Requestor 95/001,166 EASTHOM 102(e)/obviousness-type double patenting FINNEGAN, HENDERSON, FARABOW, GARRETT & DUNNER LLP Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, PLLC Third Party Requester: Haynes and Boone, LLP EXAMINER ESCALANTE, OVIDIO original EXAMINER NEURAUTER, GEORGE C
AFFIRMED
1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1644 Ex Parte Pulendran et al 10/769,635 FREDMAN 102(b) ADRIANO & ASSOCIATES EXAMINER JUEDES, AMY E
1638 Ex Parte Vance et al 10/623,930 MILLS 103(a) DORITY & MANNING, P.A. EXAMINER
KUMAR, VINOD
In addition, a claim purportedly directed to more than one statutory class of invention is indefinite because it is unclear what would constitute infringement of the claim. Cf. Ex parte Lyell, 17 USPQ2d 1548, 1551 (BPAI 1990) (“[A] single claim which purports to be both a product or machine and a process is ambiguous and is properly rejected under 35 USC 112, second paragraph, for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the invention.”); IPXL Holdings, L.L.C. v. Amazon.com, Inc., 430 F.3d 1377, 1384 (Fed. Cir. 2005) (A single claim covering both an apparatus and a method of using that apparatus is indefinite because it is unclear what acts constitute infringement of the claim).
Lyell, Ex parte, 17 USPQ2d 1548 (Bd. Pat. App. & Inter. 1990) . . . . . . . . . 2173.05(p)
IPXL Holdings v. Amazon.com, Inc., 430 F.2d 1377, 77 USPQ2d 1140 (Fed. Cir. 2005).. . . . . . . . 2173.05(p)
1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1761 Ex Parte Brooker et al 11/050,393 ADAMS 103(a) THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY EXAMINER DELCOTTO, GREGORY R
2400 Networking, Mulitplexing, Cable, and Security
2492 Ex Parte Hasson et al 10/894,482 ZECHER 102(b)/103(a) CAREY, RODRIGUEZ, GREENBERG & PAUL, LLP STEVEN M. GREENBERG EXAMINER KIM, TAE K
2600 Communications
2612 Ex Parte Stoev et al 11/192,422 BAUMEISTER 102(b)/103(a) SUGHRUE MION, PLLC EXAMINER LABBEES, EDNY
3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3721 Ex Parte Schwemberger et al 11/014,897 HOELTER 103(a) WELSH FLAXMAN & GITLER LLC EXAMINER LOPEZ, MICHELLE
REHEARING
DENIED
1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1657 Ex Parte Higuchi et al 11/238,144 FREDMAN 102(b)/103(a) THORPE NORTH & WESTERN, LLP. EXAMINER SCHUBERG, LAURA J
