REVERSED
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1618 Ex Parte Holahan 10542506 - (D) GREEN 112(1)/112(2)/102/103 Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi, L.C. JONES, DAMERON LEVEST
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1792 Ex Parte Kraft 11726548 - (D) TIMM 103 James Ray & Associates Intellectual Property, LLC SMITH, CHAIM A
Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2166 Ex Parte Murthy et al 11286873 - (D) ZECHER 103 37 C.F.R. § 41.50(b) 101 ORACLE HICKMAN PALERMO TRUONG BECKER BINGHAM WONG JOHNSON, JOHNESE T
Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3643 Ex Parte Birk et al 11570578 - (D) ADAMS 112(2)/102/103 Hovey Williams LLP HAYES, KRISTEN C
Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3766 Ex Parte Maschke 11311772 - (D) SAINDON 102/103 SIEMENS CORPORATION BEHRINGER, LUTHER G
3767 Ex Parte Ludwig et al 12167791 - (D) GRIMES 103 ABBOTT FULWIDER PATTON, LLP BOSQUES, EDELMIRA
3773 Ex Parte Parker 11099733 - (D) GRIMES 103 BRINKS HOFER GILSON & LIONE/CHICAGO/COOK TYSON, MELANIE RUANO
3775 Ex Parte de Villiers et al 12025561 - (D) ASTORINO 102 WILSON, SONSINI, GOODRICH & ROSATI SCHAPER, MICHAEL T
AFFIRMED-IN-PART
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1755 Ex Parte McGlynn et al 12417367 - (D) COLAIANNI 103 103 EMCORE CORPORATION BERNIER, LINDSEY A
Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2894 Ex Parte Trosman et al 10748174 - (D) BAHR 103 103 HARNESS, DICKEY & PIERCE, P.L.C. MONDT, JOHANNES P
AFFIRMED
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1652 Ex Parte FUKUI et al 11560937 - (D) ADAMS 103 GREENBLUM & BERNSTEIN, P.L.C. RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1735 Ex Parte Althofer 11359948 - (D) COLAIANNI 103 LERNER GREENBERG STEMER LLP SAAD, ERIN BARRY
1741 Ex Parte Hing et al 12216710 - (D) GAUDETTE 103 BACON & THOMAS, PLLC HOFFMANN, JOHN M
1766 Ex Parte Fujimoto et al 12227047 - (D) McKELVEY 103 HAMRE, SCHUMANN, MUELLER & LARSON, P.C. FANG, SHANE
Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2141 Ex Parte Chen et al 11091212 - (D) HOMERE 103 CAREY, RODRIGUEZ, GREENBERG & O'KEEFE, LLP STITT, ERIK V
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2436 Ex Parte Kelley et al 11163225 - (D) ARPIN 103 IBM WHITHAM, CURTIS, CHRISTOFFERSON & COOK, P.C. POGMORE, TRAVIS D
In In re McLaughlin, the U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals stated that:
Any judgment on obviousness is in a sense necessarily a reconstruction based upon hindsight reasoning, but [where, as here, that judgement] takes into account only knowledge which was within the level of ordinary skill at the time the claimed invention was made and does not include knowledge gleaned only from applicant’s disclosure, such a reconstruction is proper.
443 F.2d 1392, 1395, (CCPA 1971) (emphases added).
McLaughlin, In re, 443 F.2d 1392, 170 USPQ 209 (CCPA 1971) 707.07(f) , 2145
2456 Ex Parte Gaal 11172822 - (D) GREENHUT 103 XEROX CORPORATION CHANG, TOM Y
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2677 Ex Parte Harrison 10885421 - (D) HUME 103 TAROLLI, SUNDHEIM, COVELL & TUMMINO L.L.P. AMIN, JWALANT B
Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2824 Ex Parte Hutchens et al 10991705 - (D) STEPHENS 103 Baker Botts L.L.P. HUR, JUNG H
2828 Ex Parte Freund 11371277 - (D) BRADEN 103 Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP KING, JOSHUA
2856 Ex Parte Quarry 11143544 - (D) WEINBERG 112(1)/103 LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY MILLER, ROSE MARY
Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3629 Ex Parte Roots et al 11301674 - (D) KIM 101/102 CAREY, RODRIGUEZ, GREENBERG & O'KEEFE, LLP THOMPSON, MICHAEL M
3685 Ex Parte Birkestrand et al 10406164 - (D) PETRAVICK 103 IBM HEWITT II, CALVIN L
Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3769 Ex Parte Plocher 11200683 - (D) MILLS 103 HONEYWELL/HUSCH YAO, SAMCHUAN CUA
3777 Ex Parte Perez-Cruet 11756274 - (D) WALSH 103 MILLER IP GROUP, PLC IP, JASON M
On the evidence of record, we affirm, as the Examiner’s reasoning is consistent with precedent:
While the omission of an element in a combination may constitute invention if the result of the new combination be the same as before, yet, if the omission of an element is attended by a corresponding omission of the function performed by that element, there is no invention if the elements retained perform the same function as before.
Richards v. Chase Elevator Co., 159 U.S. 477, 486 (1895).
Tech Center 3900 Central Reexamination Unit (CRU)
3993 Ex parte SIMS VIBRATION LABORATORY, INC. Appellant, Patent Owner 90009930 6298842 SONG 103 Wells St. John P.S. JASTRZAB, JEFFREY R
REHEARING
DENIED
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1712 Ex Parte Stiles et al 12008354 - (D) COLAIANNI Butzel Long HORNING, JOEL G
Tech Center 2600 Communications
2646 Ex Parte Afrashteh et al 11407035 - (R) ZECHER 103 SPRINT NEXTEL CORPORATION SHEDRICK, CHARLES TERRELL
Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2826 Ex Parte Freedman 11381583 - (D) HOFF 103 Philip D. Freedman PC KUO, WENSING W
