REVERSED
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1717 Adams, Steven E. et al. 15380439 - (D) HOUSEL 102/103 LAMBERT SHORTELL & CONNAUGHTON TADESSE, YEWEBDAR T
1726 KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 14439655 - (D) CASHION 103 Patent Portfolio Builders, PLLC GOLDEN, ANDREW J
1792 Conagra Foods RDM, Inc. 14697138 - (D) DELMENDO 103 Advent, LLP LACHICA, ERICSON M
Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2133 QUALCOMM Incorporated 14716001 - (D) KUMAR 103 QUALCOMM INCORPORATED WU, STEPHANIE
2182 International Business Machines Corporation 14317413 - (D) BARRY 103 IBM Corporation - Endicott Drafting Center LAROCQUE, EMILY E
2182 International Business Machines Corporation 14573273 - (D) BARRY 101/103 IBM Corporation - Endicott Drafting Center LAROCQUE, EMILY E
Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2422 Dawson, Thomas et al. 15656495 - (D) DIRBA 102/103 ROGITZ & ASSOCIATES HAIEM, SEAN N
2488 Baxter International Inc. et al. 14606582 - (D) BENNETT 102/103 K&L Gates LLP-Chicago Baxter YOUNG, PATRICIA I
Tech Center 2600 Communications
2647 Siva Sandeep. Dhandu et al. 15154894 - (D) BENNETT 102/103 VERIZON - AK VERIZON PATENTING GROUP BILGRAMI, ASGHAR H
Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2818 International Business Machines Corporation 14973928 - (D) RANGE 102 CANTOR COLBURN LLP - IBM FISHKILL HO, HOANG QUAN TRAN
2846 Yu Chen 13651994 - (D) TIMM 102/103 MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP JOSEPH, DEVON A
2875 Hubbell Incorporated 14984827 - (D) McMANUS 102/103 Michael Best & Friedrich LLP (Hubbell) GUHARAY, KARABI
2883 Tyco Electronics Nederland BV 14584230 - (D) CURCURI 103 MERCHANT & GOULD P.C. JORDAN, ANDREW
2893 Texas Instruments Incorporated 14671727 - (D) McMANUS 102 TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED SEFER, AHMED N
Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3626 Mylan Inc. 13907028 - (D) SILVERMAN 101 Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. COBANOGLU, DILEK B
3652 VanRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 14377696 - (D) SCHOPFER 102/103 41.50 112(1) Brannon Sowers & Cracraft PC MCCLAIN, GERALD
3669 Robert Bosch Automotive Steering GmbH 15313134 - (D) HILL 103 MICHAEL BEST & FRIEDRICH LLP (Bosch) KERRIGAN, MICHAEL V
3682 Facebook, Inc. 14328509 - (D) DIXON 103 Keller Jolley Preece/Facebook OSMAN BILAL AHME, AFAF
Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3753 Cameron International Corporation 15231945 - (D) STAICOVICI 103 OneSubsea IP UK COLON MORALES, DAVID
3763 Prim, Eric 13295601 - (D) BAHR 112(1) CONLEY ROSE, P.C. KING, BRIAN M
3774 Michael A. Rees 14215807 - (D) HOFFMANN 112(2)/101/103 Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP DIOP, ROKHAYA
3793 John Hauck 11647272 - (D) HILL 103 Wiley Patent Administration NGANGA, BONIFACE N
3794 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY 15535566 - (D) CALVE 103 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY EKRAMI, YASAMIN
AFFIRMED-IN-PART
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1745 LEICHTBAU-ZENTRUM SACHSEN GMBH 14362694 - (D) INGLESE 103 103 Abel Schillinger, LLP TUCKER, PHILIP C
1779 FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE HOLDINGS, INC. 14958335 - (D) COLAIANNI 103 103 Kilyk & Bowersox, P.L.L.C. PEO, JONATHAN M
Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2422 Sony Corporation 15656691 - (D) DIRBA 103 102/103/OTDP ROGITZ & ASSOCIATES HAIEM, SEAN N
2426 Lam Hoang 15276585 - (D) HOMERE 102 102/103 Panasonic Avionics Corporation (Vista IP Law Group) ALATA, YASSIN
2433 ASSA ABLOY AB 14785653 - (D) COURTENAY 101/102 102 Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner/Assa-HID WOLDEMARIAM, NEGA
2439 Lovelace, Aaron F. et al. 14725593 - (D) RAEVSKY 103 103 SINORICA, LLC WANG, HARRIS C
Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2883 HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER GMBH 15278009 - (D) McMANUS 103 112(2) Maschoff Brennan/Hexagon JORDAN, ANDREW
Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3715 Jeremy Hornik et al. 11379176 - (D) SAINDON 103 103 NIXON PEABODY LLP HENRY, THOMAS HAYNES
3726 ALSTOM Technology Ltd 15062301 - (D) PLENZLER 102 103 41.50 103 General Electric Company VAUGHAN, JASON L
3786 BONE FOAM, LLC 13766063 - (D) LORIN 103 112(2) Workman Nydegger HICKS, VICTORIA J
AFFIRMED
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1612 AL-MELH, MANAL MANSOUR ABU. 15680113 - (D) TOWNSEND 103 Richard C. Litman Nath, Goldberg & Meyer COHEN, MICHAEL P
1612 SHARE-X CO., LTD. et al. 14912013 - (D) PRATS 103 Harness Dickey (St. Louis) YU, HONG
1627 Yoneoka, Takatomo 14342889 - (D) TOWNSEND 103/OTDP OBLON, MCCLELLAND, MAIER & NEUSTADT, L.L.P. MCMILLIAN, KARA RENITA
1628 Rios, Humberto Gonzalez. et al. 13446594 - (D) HARDMAN 103 CONLEY ROSE, P.C. LEE, ANDREW P
1639 BULK CHEMICAL SERVICES, LLC. 14755185 - (D) GRIMES 103 OTDP CLARK & BRODY HAVLIN, ROBERT H
1657 James Nial. Hynes et al. 14233602 - (D) JENKS 103 Agilent Technologies, Inc. PATURY, SRIKANTH
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1734 Beguinot, Jean et al. 10535174 - (D) SMITH Dissenting HANLON 103 SUGHRUE MION, PLLC YANG, JIE
1765 Brian B. Marr et al. 15018221 - (D) TIMM 112(2) Ashland LLC WILLIAM J. DAVIS, ESQ. LENIHAN, JEFFREY S
1793 Sahagian, Michael 12294004 - (D) GAUDETTE 103 Adam R. Stephenson, LTD. COX, AMBER M
Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2113 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. 14804654 - (D) SAADAT 101 MICRO FOCUS LLC EHNE, CHARLES
Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2421 Fox Sports Productions, Inc. 15068819 - (D) RAEVSKY 101 Cantor Colburn LLP - Fox Entertainment Group MONTOYA, OSCHTA I
2422 Saturn Licensing LLC 15492362 - (D) COURTENAY 103 ROGITZ & ASSOCIATES LEE, MICHAEL
2448 D2L Corporation 14030189 - (D) THOMAS 102/103 GOWLING WLG (CANADA) LLP SOWA, TIMOTHY JOHN
2453 Ludwig, Reiner et al. 14346766 - (D) SAADAT 103 Murphy, Bilak & Homiller/Ericsson HOUSTON, CLIFTON L
2457 Jonathan J. Lee et al. 13891983 - (D) BRANCH 103 FISH & RICHARDSON P.C. (APPLE) PENA-SANTANA, TANIA M
2483 Jean-Francois Macq 13517326 - (D) BRANCH 103 FAY SHARPE/NOKIA VOLENTINE, REBECCA A
Tech Center 2600 Communications
2611 RippleNami Inc. 15256218 - (D) BENNETT 101/103 FISH & RICHARDSON P.C. (SD) CHEN, FRANK S
2616 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 15156658 - (D) THOMAS 103 VOLPE AND KOENIG, P.C. DEPT. AMD HOANG, PETER
2616 Ofstad, Andrew 13658794 - (D) CRAIG 112(2/103 Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (Google) GOOD JOHNSON, MOTILEWA
2619 Norman Weyrich 14904065 - (D) CHUNG 103 Brooks Kushman P.C./Harman DOAN, PHUC N
2636 BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 14771998 - (D) CURCURI 103 103 Patterson Thuente Pedersen, P.A. LIU, LI
2674 TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) 15118720 - (D) STRAUSS 101 ROTHWELL, FIGG, ERNST & MANBECK, P.C. PHAM, THIERRY L
2675 Kieran Hayes 14436045 - (D) JURGOVAN 101/103 Maschoff Brennan ZHU, RICHARD Z
Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2814 Micron Technology, Inc. 14743124 - (D) DENNETT 103 TRASK BRITT, P.C./ MICRON TECHNOLOGY PIZARRO CRESPO, MARCOS D
Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3624 Hummel, Paul C. 12051196 - (D) CHEN 103 101 Boeing and Alston & Bird, LLP DICKERSON, TIPHANY B
3624 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION 14105016 - (D) RAEVSKY 101 CANTOR COLBURN LLP-IBM YORKTOWN RINES, ROBERT D
3627 Neeran Karnik et al. 12977780 - (D) JEFFERY 103 101 41.50 101 Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP RACIC, MILENA
3629 International Business Machines Corporation 14816548 - (D) CRAWFORD 101/103 Terrile Cannatti & Chambers, LLP IBM - POU LINDSEY III, JOHNATHAN J
3649 ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC. 14754755 - (D) BROWN 103 McCarter & English LLP ACCOUNT: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC. HARMON, CHRISTOPHER R
3687 Stephen Seawall 13792110 - (D) HOWARD 101 DEEPAK MALHOTRA MALHOTRA LAW FIRM, PLLC CHEIN, ALLEN C
3692 Airbnb, Inc. 13909626 - (D) SHIANG 101 AIRBNB/FENWICK MADAMBA, CLIFFORD B
3694 Adobe Systems Incorporated 14611830 - (D) BAYAT 101 Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (Adobe Inc.) ANDERSON, SCOTT C
Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3732 Richard Baskerville 14491930 - (D) OSINSKI 112(1)/102 112(2) 41.50 112(2) John Karl Buche Buche & Associates, P.C. LYNCH, MEGAN E
See In re Steele, 305 F.2d 859, 862–63 (CCPA 1962) (holding that the Board erred in affirming an obviousness rejection of indefinite claims because the rejection was based on speculative assumptions as to the meaning of the claims) ...
Steele, In re, 305 F.2d 859, 134 USPQ 292 (CCPA 1959) 2143.03 , 2173.06
We find the reasoning in In re Steele to be applicable to the written description rejection because reaching a decision as to whether the claims have adequate written description support requires that we first understand the metes and bounds of the claims. Cf. In re Moore, 439 F.2d 1232, 1235 (CCPA 1971) (One is not in a position to determine whether a claim is enabled under the first paragraph of 35 U.S.C. § 112 until the metes and bounds of that claim are determined under the second paragraph of this section of the statute.).
Moore, In re, 439 F.2d 1232, 169 USPQ 236 (CCPA 1971) 1504.04 , 2161.01 , 2164.08 , 2172
3735 KRAFT FOODS R&D, INC. 14903480 - (D) KERINS 103 CANTOR COLBURN LLP PAGAN, JAVIER A
3761 Crain Cutter Company, Inc. 14742642 - (D) GREENHUT 112(1)/112(2) FENWICK & WEST LLP FUQUA, SHAWNTINA T
3774 Graham, Michael 15015746 - (D) FINAMORE 103 Houtteman Law LLC PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D
3775 Urs Hulliger 13426079 - (D) SCHOPFER 102 103 Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP COLEY, ZADE JAMES
3783 Moonen, Chretien et al. 12438934 - (D) WIEDER 102/103 PHILIPS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & STANDARDS LEE, WENG WAH
