REVERSED
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1791 Ex Parte Piorkowski 14701342 - (D) TIMM 112(2)/103 FITCH EVEN TABIN & FLANNERY, LLP DICUS, TAMRA
Tech Center 2600 Communications
2613 Ex Parte Cianfrone 14224939 - (D) McKEOWN 103 Finch & Maloney PLLC LHYMN, SARAH
2625 Ex Parte Puskarich 15091501 - (D) McCARTNEY 103 APPLE INC./BROWNSTEIN c/o Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP HARRIS, DOROTHY H
Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2882 Ex Parte Ouderkirk et al 14865206 - (D) FRANKLIN 102/103 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY LE, BAO-LUAN Q
Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3652 Ex Parte Sheedy et al 13513998 - (D) KERINS 103 Atlanta Baker Donelson ROMANO, ASHLEY K
Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3732 Ex Parte Perron 14211873 - (D) FITZPATRICK 102/103 GARVEY, SMITH & NEHRBASS, PATENT ATTORNEYS, L.L.C. BAYS, MARIE D
3771 Ex Parte Merz et al 13865532 - (D) KERINS 102/103 KS - Whitmyer IP Group LLC HERBERMANN, ERICH G.
3771 Ex Parte Swaney et al 14208508 - (D) SONG 102/103 TAROLLI, SUNDHEIM, COVELL & TUMMINO L.L.P. HERBERMANN, ERICH G.
3771 Ex Parte LITSCHER et al 14746094 - (D) STEPINA 102 Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP -- BSC BACHMAN, LINDSEY MICHELE
3794 Ex Parte Jackson 14874372 - (D) PESLAK 102/103 41.50 112(2) SIMPSON & SIMPSON, PLLC EKRAMI, YASAMIN
We also enter additional new grounds of rejection against claims 12 and 25 as indefinite under 35 U.S.C. § 112(b ). "[W]e apply the approach for assessing indefiniteness approved by the Federal Circuit in Packard, i.e., '[a] claim is indefinite when it contains words or phrases whose meaning is unclear."' Ex parte McAward, No. 2015-006416, 2017 WL 3669566, at *5 (PTAB Aug. 25, 2017) (precedential) (quoting In re Packard, 751 F.3d 1307, 1310, 1314 (Fed. Cir. 2014)).
Packard, In re, 751 F.3d 1307, 110 USPQ2d 1785 (Fed. Cir. 2014) 2173.02 , 2173.05(a) , 2173.05(e) , 2173.06
AFFIRMED-IN-PART
Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2434 Ex Parte RODGERS et al 14247810 - (D) McKEOWN 103 103 Vista IP Law Group, LLP (Oracle) BAYOU, YONAS A
Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3626 Ex Parte Cohen-Solal et al 13981998 - (D) COURTENAY 101 101 PHILIPS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & STANDARDS TIEDEMAN, JASON S
Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3774 Ex Parte BAYM et al 13858738 - (D) SCHNEIDER 112(2) 112(1) Advent, LLP/INTELLECTUAL VENTURES BAHENA, CHRISTIE L.
AFFIRMED
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1641 Ex Parte Evers et al 14358512 - (D) VALEK 103 PHILIPS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & STANDARDS COUNTS, GARY W
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1718 Ex Parte OKIMOTO et al 13749031 - (D) GUPTA dissenting-in-part NAGUMO OTDP 103 OBLON, MCCLELLAND, MAIER & NEUSTADT, L.L.P. BENNETT, CHARLEE
1737 Ex Parte IMAMOTO et al 14698215 - (D) DENNETT 103 Leason Ellis LLP CHEA, THORL
Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2111 Ex Parte Baptist et al 15281317 - (D) KUMAR 101 Garlick & Markison (IBM) GANDHI, DIPAKKUMAR B
Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2442 Ex Parte Hesketh et al 13348348 - (D) JURGOVAN 103 LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS, LLC BLAIR, DOUGLAS B
Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2836 Ex Parte Isaacson et al 12887559 - (D) PRAISS 103 CARLSON, GASKEY & OLDS, P.C. DHILLON, JAGDEEP S
2875 Ex Parte Andrews 14195892 - (D) PRAISS 103 Global Intellectual Property Agency, LLC ZIMMERMAN, GLENN D
Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3624 Ex Parte WEINBERGER et al 14148199 - (D) JURGOVAN 101/103 MasterCard c/o Ballard Spahr LLP SADANANDA, ABHIJIT B
3626 Ex Parte FINDLAY et al 12468563 - (D) FETTING 103 101/103 Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP MORGAN, ROBERT W
3683 Ex Parte Bortolotti et al 12114728 - (D) McCARTNEY 101/103 IBM CORPORATION C/0: Fabian Vancott AUSTIN, JAMIE H
3688 Ex Parte CRANE et al 12884559 - (D) CUTITTA 101 SHOOK, HARDY & BACON L.L.P. (MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC) ALVAREZ, RAQUEL
