REVERSED
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2457 Ex Parte Fletcher et al 11935465 - (D) NAPPI 102/103 VanCott Bagley, Cornwall & McCarthy IBM CORPORATION TAYLOR, NICHOLAS R
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2675 Ex Parte Manchala et al 12352759 - (D) KRIVAK 103 Basch & Nickerson LLP HON, MING Y
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3632 Ex Parte Kabat et al 12165650 - (D) ABRAMS 103 JAY BROWN LAW FIRM MCDUFFIE, MICHAEL D
Appellants assert that the Examiner has not met the burden of proof required:
“To establish inherency, the extrinsic evidence ‘must make clear that the missing descriptive matter is necessarily present in the thing described in the reference, and that it would be so recognized by persons of ordinary skill. Inherency, however, may not be established by probabilities or possibilities. The mere fact that a certain thing may result from a given set of circumstances is not sufficient.’” In re Robertson, 169 F.3d 743, 745, 49 USPQ2d 1949, 1950-51 (Fed. Cir. 1999).
Robertson, In re, 169 F.3d 743, 49 USPQ2d 1949 (Fed. Cir. 1999) 2112 , 2114 , 2163 , 2163.07(a)
3654 Ex Parte Frait et al 12838574 - (D) MURPHY 102/103 MACMILLAN, SOBANSKI & TODD, LLC - FORD BUSE, MARK KENNETH
3692 Ex Parte Mueller et al 11847254 - (D) MOHANTY 112(1)/112(2)/103 Dilworth IP - SAP MONFELDT, SARAH M
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3721 Ex Parte Henriksen 11578925 - (D) STAICOVICI 103 KNOBBE MARTENS OLSON & BEAR LLP TRUONG, THANH K
3738 Ex Parte Serafin et al 11220997 - (D) WIEKER 102/103 Christopher John Rudy HOBAN, MELISSA A
3777 Ex Parte Yuan et al 12345282 - (D) CAPP 103 Lowe Graham Jones Boston Scientific Corporation GUPTA, VANI
The Examiner's statement that the mere contemplation of the possibility of the development of a new material at some indeterminate point in the future is sufficient to form the basis of an obviousness rejection under 35 U.S.C. 103(a) is an incorrect statement of the law. References relied upon to support a rejection under 35 USC 103 must place the claimed invention in the possession of the public. See In re Payne, 606 F.2d 303, 314 (CCPA 1979). An invention is not "possessed" absent some known or obvious way to make it. In re Hoeksema, 399 F.2d 269, 274 (CCPA 1968).
Payne, In re, 606 F.2d 303, 203 USPQ 245 (CCPA 1979) 716.02(a) , 716.02(e) , 2144.09
Hoeksema, In re, 399 F.2d 269, 158 USPQ 596 (CCPA 1968) 2121.01 , 2121.02 , 2144.09 , 2145
AFFIRMED-IN-PART
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2467 Ex Parte Casati et al 11503661 - (D) KHAN 103 103 CARLSON, GASKEY & OLDS, P.C./Alcatel-Lucent MAIS, MARK A
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3782 Ex Parte Plunkett et al 12883040 - (D) MURPHY 103 103 DORSEY & WHITNEY LLP - NEW YORK PASCUA, JES F
AFFIRMED
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1717 Ex Parte Kihira et al 12297508 - (D) SMITH 103 NORRIS MCLAUGHLIN & MARCUS, PA HERNANDEZ-DIAZ, JOSE
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2121 Ex Parte Dyrmose 12057475 - (D) BEAMER 103 HAMRE, SCHUMANN, MUELLER & LARSON, P.C. LIN, JASON
2163 Ex Parte SINGH 12643444 - (D) TROCK 103 TERADATA CORPORATION PHAM, TUAN A
2169 Ex Parte Mordvinov et al 12332871 - (D) LENTIVECH 101/103 Walder Intellectual Property Law PC CHOI, MICHELE C
2169 Ex Parte Huang 11382386 - (D) KINDER 103 PATTERSON THUENTE PEDERSEN, P.A. KIM, PAUL
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3623 Ex Parte Kutlev et al 11551896 - (D) KIM 103 RENNER, OTTO, BOISSELLE & SKLAR, LLP (ABBI) MARCUS, LELAND R
3679 Ex Parte KAISER et al 12415646 - (D) HOFFMANN 112(2)/102/103 INGRASSIA FISHER & LORENZ, P.C. (GM) MCMAHON, MATTHEW R
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3745 Ex Parte Meng et al 12619604 - (D) HORNER 103 101/102/103 Aerojet Rocketdyne LEGENDRE, CHRISTOPHER RYAN
3753 Ex Parte Palaoro 11813214 - (D) ASTORINO 103 BACHMAN & LAPOINTE, P.C. PRICE, CRAIG JAMES
