REVERSED
Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2169 Ex Parte Walter 11388411 - (D) DILLON 102/103 BLAKELY SOKOLOFF TAYLOR & ZAFMAN SAP/BSTZ KIM, PAUL
Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2894 Ex Parte Edwards et al 11755019 - (D) WHITEHEAD, JR. 102/103 FREDERICK W. GIBB, III GIBB & RILEY, LLC PHAM, THANH V
Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3676 Ex Parte Lembcke et al 11680717 - (D) HORNER 103 PATTERSON & SHERIDAN, L.L.P. / Weatherford FULLER, ROBERT EDWARD
Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3738 Ex Parte Hartley et al 10396676 - (D) SCHEINER 103 BRINKS HOFER GILSON & LIONE/CHICAGO/COOK STEWART, JASON-DENNIS NEILKEN
3751 Ex Parte Takasu 11889249 - (D) STAICOVICI 112(1)/102/103 SUGHRUE-265550 LE, HUYEN D
3766 Ex Parte Ghanem et al 11744455 - (D) GREEN 103 Medtronic, Inc. (CRDM) PORTER, JR, GARY A
3767 Ex Parte Cindrich et al 10916649 - (D) GREEN 102/103 Becton, Dickinson and Company SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE
(Ans. 13 (citing Boston Scientific Scimed v. Cordis, 554 F.3d 982, 991 (Fed. Cir. 2009)). We do not find the citation of that case, however, to be sufficient to support a conclusion of obviousness.
That is, while the Federal Circuit stated in Boston Scientific Scimed that “[c]ombining two embodiments disclosed adjacent to each other in a prior art patent does not require a leap of inventiveness,” Boston Scientific Scimed, 554 F.3d at 991, the Examiner has not explained how the facts in that case would lead to the same conclusion in the instant appeal.
3775 Ex Parte Cook et al 11546391 - (D) GRIMES 103 DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP WAGGLE, JR, LARRY E
AFFIRMED-IN-PART
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1613 Ex Parte OHARE 12011773 - (D) PRATS 103 102/103 37 C.F.R. § 41.50(b) 102 BOZICEVIC, FIELD & FRANCIS LLP ARNOLD, ERNST V
Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2424 Ex Parte Newnam et al 10142756 - (D) ARPIN 102/103 103 ERICSSON INC. NEWLIN, TIMOTHY R
Moreover, to the extent that the Examiner relies on teachings selectively drawn from different embodiments of Dougherty to disclose the disputed limitations of claim 9, this is improper in the context of an anticipation rejection. Application of Arkley, 455 F.2d 586, 587-88 (CCPA 1972). In Arkley, the court found that rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 103 are proper where the subject matter claimed “is not identically disclosed or described” (emphasis ours) in “the prior art,” indicating that rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 102 are proper only when the claimed subject matter is identically disclosed or described in “the prior art.” Thus, for the instant rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) to have been proper, the [cited] reference must clearly and unequivocally disclose the claimed [system] or direct those skilled in the art to the [system] without any need for picking, choosing, and combining various disclosures not directly related to each other by the teachings of the cited reference. Such picking and choosing may be entirely proper in the making of a 103, obviousness rejection, where the applicant must be afforded an opportunity to rebut with objective evidence any inference of obviousness which may arise from the similarity of the subject matter which he claims to the prior art, but it has no place in the making of a 102, anticipation rejection. Id.
Tech Center 2600 Communications
2642 Ex Parte Marzetta 11553191 - (D) PARVIS 112(2) 112(2)/102/103 RYAN, MASON & LEWIS, LLP SCHWARTZ, JOSHUA L
Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3665 Ex Parte Ames et al 11106192 - (D) BUNTING 102/103 112(2) Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd. NGUYEN, CHUONG P
Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3775 Ex Parte Burkus et al 11725618 - (D) ADAMS 103 103 Medtronic, Inc (Spinal/Krieg DeVault) LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES
3778 Ex Parte Kleman 11022379 - (D) SCHEINER 103 102/103 DORITY & MANNING, P.A. DIXON, ANNETTE FREDRICKA
AFFIRMED
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1734 Ex Parte Alexandrovichserov et al 11607660 - (D) KIMLIN 103 CHRISTIE, PARKER & HALE, LLP FORREST, MICHAEL
1741 Ex Parte Habik et al 10544182 - (D) SMITH 103 BACON & THOMAS, PLLC CORDRAY, DENNIS R
1745 Ex Parte Deka 11649714 - (D) SMITH 103 DORITY & MANNING, P.A. TOLIN, MICHAEL A
1761 Ex Parte Kinscherf et al 11532227 - (D) SMITH 103 COLGATE-PALMOLIVE COMPANY OGDEN JR, NECHOLUS
1767 Ex Parte Heuer et al 11157092 - (D) DELMENDO 103 NOVAK DRUCE CONNOLLY BOVE + QUIGG LLP PEPITONE, MICHAEL F
1793 Ex Parte Dohl et al 11830507 - (D) GAUDETTE 103 Hovey Williams LLP GEORGE, PATRICIA ANN
Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2432 Ex Parte Pinder 11407653 - (D) JEFFERY 103 Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P. Cisco Systems, Inc. LANIER, BENJAMIN E
2436 Ex Parte Coppola et al 11227806 - (D) DESHPANDE 103 IBM CORPORATION NGUYEN, TRONG H
2476 Ex Parte Moriarty et al 10285069 - (D) KUMAR 103 Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP HALIYUR, VENKATESH N
Tech Center 2600 Communications
2674 Ex Parte Yamada 11294406 - (D) COURTENAY 102/103 BUCHANAN, INGERSOLL & ROONEY PC YANG, QIAN
Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2814 Ex Parte Seo et al 11267576 - (D) KRIVAK 103 HARNESS, DICKEY & PIERCE, P.L.C. PHAM, LONG
2858 Ex Parte Morrison et al 11555373 - (D) McKONE 112(1)/103 WesternGeco L.L.C. PHAN, HUY Q
Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3626 Ex Parte Jung et al 11888614 - (D) PRAISS 103 THE INVENTION SCIENCE FUND CLARENCE T. TEGREENE RAPILLO, KRISTINE K
3626 Ex Parte Jung et al 11486973 - (D) PRAISS 103 THE INVENTION SCIENCE FUND CLARENCE T. TEGREENE HUNTER, SEAN KRISTOPHER
3686 Ex Parte Jung et al 11888627 - (D) PRAISS 103 Constellation Law Group, PLLC WOODS, TERESA S
Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3742 Ex Parte Czerner et al 10556644 - (D) MARTIN 103 Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC HEINRICH, SAMUEL M
3767 Ex Parte Morris et al 11754759 - (D) GRIMES 102/103 Medtronic, Inc. (CRDM) THOMAS, JR, BRADLEY G
3771 Ex Parte Gloag et al 11743723 - (D) JENKS 112(2)/102/103 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY SKORUPA, VALERIE LYNN
3773 Ex Parte Dreyfuss 11224060 - (D) SNEDDEN 103 DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP MASHACK, MARK F
REHEARING
DENIED
Tech Center 2600 Communications
2636 Ex Parte Grosz et al 10139058 - (D) HOFF 103 WALL & TONG, LLP/ALCATEL-LUCENT USA INC. ALAGHEBAND, ABBAS H
