REVERSED
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1648 Ex Parte Collins et al 11891812 - (D) MAJORS Concurring ADAMS 112(1)/OTDP 41.50 OTDP DAVIS, BROWN, KOEHN, SHORS & ROBERTS, P.C. CHESTNUT, BARRY A
See, e.g., Amgen Inc. v. F. Hoffman-La Roche Ltd., 580 F.3d 1340, 1353 (Fed. Cir. 2009) ("[A] patent need not have issued directly from a divisional application to receive § 121 protection. . . . [I]ntervening continuation applications do not render a patent ineligible for § 121 protection so long as they descended from a divisional application filed as a result of a restriction requirement"). To clarify, insofar as the Examiner is suggesting on the present record that § 121 does not apply, the Examiner may be correct, and this remand should not be understood as indicating otherwise. But the record is wanting for a sufficient analysis on that question.
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The Examiner should address the Office's prior position in the Restriction as compared with the Examiner's position on appeal that the pending claims are "not patentably distinct" from the patent claims cited in support of the double patenting rejections. See, e.g., Ans. 6, 8. Lastly, the Examiner should determine whether the claims remain in consonance. See Symbol Techs., Inc. v. Opticon, Inc., 935 F.2d 1569, 1579 (Fed. Cir. 1991) ("Consonance requires that the line of demarcation between the 'independent and distinct inventions' that prompted the restriction requirement be maintained .... Where that line is crossed the prohibition of the third sentence of Section 121 does not apply.")
35 USC 121 third sentence:
A patent issuing on an application with respect to which a requirement for restriction under this section has been made, or on an application filed as a result of such a requirement, shall not be used as a reference either in the Patent and Trademark Office or in the courts against a divisional application or against the original application or any patent issued on either of them, if the divisional application is filed before the issuance of the patent on the other application.
Amgen Inc. v. F. Hoffman-La Roche Ltd., 580 F.3d 1340, 92 USPQ2d 1289 (Fed. Cir. 2009) 2113
Tech Center 2600 Communications
2689 Ex Parte Jones et al 14032560 - (D) ENGLE 103 Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery, LLP/Walmart Apollo TERRELL, EMILY C
Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2831 Ex Parte PODROG 13466125 - (D) GAUDETTE 103 NOVA IP LAW, PLLC GONZALEZ, JULIO CESAR
Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3711 Ex Parte Trowbridge et al 14505408 - (D) BAHR 102/103 DISNEY ENTERPRISES INC. c/o Patent Ingenuity, P.C. BALDOR!, JOSEPH B
3735 Ex Parte Moon et al 13292923 - (D) BAYAT 103 41.50 112(2) Acuity Law Group, P.C. BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN
3737 Ex Parte Amthor et al 14349333 - (D) FREDMAN 103 PHILIPS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & STANDARDS KINNARD, LISA M
3765 Ex Parte Yeung et al 13342872 - (D) CRAWFORD 112(1)/112(2)/103 TI Law Group, PC ANNIS, KHALED
AFFIRMED-IN-PART
Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2466 Ex Parte Hosein et al 12353840 - (D) POTHIER 103 103 Slater Matsil, LLP/HW/FW/HWC TRAN, THINHD
AFFIRMED
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1613 Ex Parte Pimenta et al 13997344 - (D) NEW 103/OTDP COLGATE-PALMOLIVE COMPANY CHANG, KYUNG SOOK
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1711 Ex Parte Busing et al 12933092 - (D) WILSON 103 BSH Home Appliances Corporation BELL, SPENCER E
1791 Ex Parte Arora et al 13691176 - (D) ROSS 103 Diederiks & Whitelaw, PLC LEBLANC, KATHERINE DEGUIRE
Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2842 Ex Parte Jun et al 14814738 - (D) REN 102/103 TEXAS INSTRUMENTS IN CORPORA TED GANNON, LEVI
2864 Ex Parte BØ 13325708 - (D) NAGUMO 101 SCHLUMBERGER INFORMATION SOLUTIONS LIAO, CHRISTINE Y
Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3621 Ex Parte Volnak 12422055 - (D) BEAMER 101/103 MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY LLP ELCHANTI, TAREK
3628 Ex Parte Peltz et al 12251259 - (D) KIM 101 41.50 101 Hewlett Packard Enterprise ALLEN, AKIBA KANELLE
3643 Ex Parte Shigyo et al 14236192 - (D) CAPP concurring STEPINA 103 SUGHRUE MION, PLLC TOPOLSKI, MAGDALENA
3689 Ex Parte Raikula 14102389 - (D) CUTITTA 112(1)/101/103 PROSKAUER ROSE LLP MINCARELLI, JAN P
3692 Ex Parte Zhou et al 11965636 - (D) BAYAT 101 THOMAS HORSTEMEYER, LLP MADAMBA, CLIFFORD B
Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3763 Ex Parte Perez-Cruet et al 14211802 - (D) HOSKINS 103 MILLER IP GROUP, PLC LEGETTE-THOMPSON, TIFFANY
