REVERSED
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1776 Ex Parte Gonzalez et al 13255000 - (D) KENNEDY 103 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY PRECHT, BRITANNY E.
Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2165 Ex Parte McCully 11678607 - (D) CURCURI 103 PATTERSON & SHERIDAN, LLP/IBM SVL SYED, FARHAN M
Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2482 Ex Parte Kenny et al 13846490 - (D) REPKO 103 GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY WALSH, KATHLEEN M.
Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3742 Ex Parte EICHENLAUB et al 13866706 - (D) WOOD 102/103 Carstens & Cahoon, LLP CHOU, JIMMY
3747 Ex Parte Dean et al 13556709 - (D) CAPP 103 Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C. (GM) MONAHON, BRIAN P
The obviousness inquiry requires a determination that a skilled artisan would have been motivated to combine the teachings of the prior art references to achieve the claimed invention, and that the skilled artisan would have had a reasonable expectation of success in doing so. Kinetic Concepts, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., 688 F.3d 1342, 1360 (Fed. Cir. 2012). The presence or absence of a motivation to combine references in an obviousness determination is a question of fact. See Par Pharm., Inc. v. TWI Pharm., Inc., 773 F.3d 1186, 1196 (Fed. Cir. 2014). “The reasonable expectation of success requirement refers to the likelihood of success in combining references to meet the limitations of the claimed invention.” Intelligent Bio-Systems, Inc. v. Illumina Cambridge Ltd., 821 F.3d 1359, 1367 (Fed. Cir. 2016). In other words, “one must have a motivation to combine accompanied by a reasonable expectation of achieving what is claimed in the patent-at-issue.” Id.
In the instant case, we are not persuaded that the Examiner has provided sufficient articulated reasoning with a rational underpinning to explain how and/or why a person of ordinary skill in the art would have been led to the claimed invention by the cited art.
3763 Ex Parte Knudson 14054519 - (D) ADAMS 102 Wiley Rein LLP MEDWAY, SCOTT J
AFFIRMED-IN-PART
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1729 Ex Parte Goodenough et al 11447510 - (D) OWENS 103 103 Mennier Parlin Rr r’lirfman T T C CHUO, TONY SHENG HSIANG
AFFIRMED
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1733 Ex Parte Kernig et al 13112588 - (D) PER CURIAM 103 REINHART BOERNER VAN DEUREN P.C. MORILLO, JANELL COMBS
1768 Ex Parte Fennis et al 13813466 - (D) GARRIS 103 SHELL OIL COMPANY RIOJA, MELISSA A
1793 Ex Parte Cattaruzza et al 13885237 - (D) SMITH 102/103 Mars, Incorporated TRAN, LIEN THUY
Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2454 Ex Parte Redfern et al 13673473 - (D) BAIN 101/103 Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner / LinkedIn/Microsoft HACKENBERG, RACHEL J
Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3682 Ex Parte Meriaz et al 12559780 - (D) BUSCH 101 ALSTON & BIRD LLP HAMILTON, MATTHEW L
3688 Ex Parte Hampel et al 11437157 - (D) MOHANTY 101 Condo Roccia Koptiw LLP ALVAREZ, RAQUEL
Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3721 Ex Parte HUFFER et al 13584931 - (D) ASTORINO 103 Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP STINSON, CHELSEA E.
3744 Ex Parte Benonysson 12066834 - (D) SCHOPFER 103 MCCORMICK, PAULDING & HUBER LLP RUSSELL, DEVON L
3745 Ex Parte Santoro et al 13328733 - (D) GUIJT 103 0'Shea Getz P.C. SEHN, MICHAEL L
3771 Ex Parte Groll 12070463 - (D) REIMERS 112(2)/103 The Ronald Law Group, LLC SIPPEL, RACHEL T
3776 Ex Parte Cole 13469192 - (D) GRIMES 103 HAUG PARTNERS LLP NOBREGA, TATIANA L
REHEARING
GRANTED
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3777 Ex Parte Clendenen et al 14128694 - (R) FLAX 103 FAEGRE BAKER DANIELS LLP MEHL, PATRICK M
REEXAMINATION
AFFIRMED
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1754 Johnson Matthey, Inc. Requester v. Patent of BASF Corporation, Patent Owner and Appellant Ex Parte 7229597 et al 10634659 95001745 - (D) ROBERTSON 103 103 41.50 103 WOMBLE CARLYLE SANDRIDGE & RICE, LLP THIRD-PARTY REQUESTER: FITZPATRICK CELLA HARPER & SCINTO LOPEZ, CARLOS N original JOHNSON, EDWARD M
