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PTAB.US: Decisions of PTAB Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Wednesday, June 9, 2021

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Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1615 Erika Hoffmann et al. 13700175 FREDMAN 112(1) Thrive IP Jeremy Stipkala MERCIER, MELISSA S

1649 Gary Borodic 16013552 ADAMS 103 HAYES SOLOWAY P.C. FONTAINHAS, AURORA M

1649 Gary Borodic 15834491 ADAMS 103 HAYES SOLOWAY P.C. FONTAINHAS, AURORA M

1718 AP&C ADVANCED POWDERS & COATINGS INC. 16092790 CASHION 103 Dority & Manning, P.A. and GEC-Aviation MAYY, MOHAMMAD

1723 YAZAKI CORPORATION 14966355 GAUDETTE 103 KENEALY VAIDYA LLP AKHTAR, KIRAN QURAISHI

1725 Gaston GLOCK 15204602 INGLESE 103 RAVEN PATENTS, LLC MERKLING, MATTHEW J

1747 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company 13946309 MCGEE 103 WOMBLE BOND DICKINSON (US) LLP KRINKER, YANA B

1782 YAZAKI CORPORATION 14945531 CASHION 103 METROLEX IP LAW GROUP, PLLC HOCK, ELLEN SUZANNE

1786 Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited 15103081 MCGEE 103 HAMRE, SCHUMANN, MUELLER & LARSON, P.C. LOPEZ, RICARDO E.

1789 JOSE DE LA LAMA GOMEZ 14176702 BEST 103 TUCKER ELLIS LLP IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE

1791 Richard Jones 14801947 GAUDETTE 103 BERESKIN & PARR LLP/S.E.N.C.R.L., s.r.l. COX, STEPHANIE A

1792 Conopco, Inc., d/b/a UNILEVER 14408635 PRAISS 103 FOLEY & LARDNER LLP YOO, HONG THI

1792 SEB S.A. 14372324 RANGE 103 LERNER, DAVID, LITTENBERG, KRUMHOLZ & MENTLIK LEFF, STEVEN N

1793 Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC 14579005 ROBERTSON 112(2)/103 FITCH EVEN TABIN & FLANNERY, LLP LE, EMILY M

2154 Google LLC 14504121 DIXON 103 Colby Nipper / Google NGUYEN, THU N

2176 MYSCRIPT 14786819 SHIANG 103 MH2 Technology Law Grp (w/ Cabinet Beau de Lomenie) NGUYEN, MAIKHANH

2184 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 15496232 MORGAN 103 McClure, Qualey & Rodack, LLP SHYU, JING-YIH

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2482 Nvidia Corporation 15043978 LEBOVITZ 102/103 PARKER JUSTISS, P.C./Nvidia HOSSAIN, FARZANA E

2483 Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC 15893206 ZADO 103 Crowell & Morning LLP Intellectual Property Group AN, SHAWN S

2484 Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC 14285483 HOMERE 103 Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A. HASAN, SYED Y

2493 Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC. 15082768 SAADAT Dissenting BUSCH 103 MICROSOFT CORPORATION LESNIEWSKI, VICTOR D

2612 Gentex Corporation 15189371 FRAHM 103 GENTEX CORPORATION LIU, GORDON G

2619 Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. 14830133 CHEN 103 KATTEN MUCHIN ROSENMAN LLP LE, SARAH

2657 Vios Medical, Inc. 14961693 DEJMEK 103 Murata Vios, Inc. C/O KEATING & BENNETT, LLP LERNER, MARTIN

2677 Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 14818371 BEAMER 103 SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA C/O KEATING & BENNETT, LLP ZONG, HELEN

2694 Adobe Inc. 13710347 AMUNDSON 103 FIG. 1 Patents LAMB, CHRISTOPHER RAY

2812 TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED 15975582 TIMM 103 TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED SEVEN, EVREN

2855 Corning Incorporated 15171404 HASTINGS 103 41.50 103 CORNING INCORPORATED DUNLAP, JONATHAN M

Pfizer, Inc. v. Apotex, Inc., 480 F.3d 1348, 1371 (Fed. Cir. 2007) (“[A]ny superior property must be unexpected to be considered as evidence of non-obviousness”). Under these circumstances, we view this data as merely representing the optimization of the softness described in Shigeru (optionally with Oka) which would have been within the skill of and, thus, obvious to the artisan. See id. at 1371 (“At most, then, Pfizer engaged in routine, verification testing to optimize selection of one of several known and clearly suggested pharmaceutically-acceptable salts to ease its commercial manufacturing and marketing of the tablet form of the therapeutic amlodipine.”).

Pfizer, Inc. v. Apotex Inc., 480 F.3d 1348, 82 USPQd 1321 (Fed. Cir. 2007) 2143.012145

2883 NESTEC S.A. 14758031 ROBERTSON 103 WOMBLE BOND DICKINSON (US) LLP JORDAN, ANDREW

2883 Zeus Industrial Products, Inc. 15291323 ROBERTSON 103 WOMBLE BOND DICKINSON (US) LLP JORDAN, ANDREW

2899 SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC 15679666 HEANEY 112(1)/103 SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC (AS) GUMEDZOE, PENIEL M

3655 9754741Canada Ltd 15662794 KAUFFMAN 102/103 ADE & COMPANY INC. RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C

3658 Raytheon Company 15156507 SCHOPFER 102/103 Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP (Raytheon) ELAHMADI, ZAKARIA

3682 Facebook, Inc. 13756360 DANG 112(1)/103 Facebook/Fenwick Silicon Valley Center UBALE, GAUTAM

3715 APPLE INC. 14213852 ASTORINO 112(1)/103 DENTONS US LLP - Apple GEBREMICHAEL, BRUK A

3761 ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC. 14489227 STAICOVICI 103 ITW c/o MCANDREWS HELD & MALLOY PAIK, SANG YEOP

3792 LifeQ Global Limited 15330865 HOELTER 102/103 SMITH, GAMBRELL & RUSSELL HOUGH, JESSANDRA F

3793 General Electric Company 15287318 MOHANTY 103 GE Healthcare-McCoy Russell LLP MAYNARD, JOHNATHAN A

3793 Roland Proksa et al. 14124822 WOODS 103 PHILIPS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & STANDARDS SABOKTAKIN, MARJAN

Affirmed-in-Part 
2178 International Business Machines Corporation 15443220 FETTING 112(1)/112(2) 112(1)/112(2) IBM Corporation - Patent Center HUYNH, CONG LAC T

2191 The Procter & Gamble Company 14879110 NAPPI 103 103 THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY COYER, RYAN D

2193 ENTIT Software LLC 15574370 AMUNDSON 103 103 MICRO FOCUS LLC VU, TUAN A

2194 VCE Company, LLC 14460713 HOWARD 103 103 WOMBLE BOND DICKINSON (US) LLP/DELL-VCE HOANG, PHUONG N

2611 Google LLC 16009696 FRAHM 103 103 BRAKE HUGHES BELLERMANN LLP LIU, ZHENGXI

2672 Mikel Stanich et al. 15434272 HOFF 103 103 Ricoh/JWMH VO, QUANG N

2822 Biological Innovation and Optimization Systems, LLC 16270936 ROBERTSON 112(1)/103 112(2) MLO WALL, VINCENT

2837 EATON CORPORATION 15714009 SMITH 102/103 102 ECKERT SEAMANS CHERIN & MELLOTT, LLC EATON CORPORATION
TALPALATSKI, ALEXANDER

2842 Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. 16007087 HEANEY 112(1)/112(2)/102 102 PEARNE & GORDON LLP NGUYEN, LONG T

2864 CGG SERVICES SAS 15521647 GUPTA 103 102/103 Patent Portfolio Builders, PLLC PEREZ BERMUDEZ, YARITZA H

3669 FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC 15671832 GUIJT 102/103 102/103 41.50 103 BROOKS KUSHMAN P.C./FGTL HUTCHINSON, ALAN D

3676 WELLTEC A/S 15182950 WIEDER 103 103 NIXON & VANDERHYE, PC GRAY, GEORGE STERLING

3762 Regal Beloit America, Inc. 15349674 SONG 112(2)/102/103 102 Thompson Coburn LLP JOHNSON, BENJAMIN W

Affirmed 
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1611 LONZA LTD 14898810 PRATS 103 DORITY & MANNING, P.A. LAZARO, DOMINIC

1613 Robert Davis et al. 13203365 JURGOVAN OTDP 103 HOXIE & ASSOCIATES LLC HUANG, GIGI GEORGIANA

1617 L'OREAL 14915517 NEW 103 OBLON, MCCLELLAND, MAIER & NEUSTADT, L.L.P. SOROUSH, ALI

1618 AVEDRO, INC. 14281638 ADAMS 103 MCDONNELL BOEHNEN HULBERT & BERGHOFF LLP DICKINSON, PAUL W

1631 Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. 14912776 ADAMS 103 SIEMENS CORPORATION WISE, OLIVIA M.

1633 Jian Han 14089517 ADAMS 103 MAYNARD COOPER & GALE PC (Huntsville) SCHULTZ, JAMES

1642 NESTEC S.A. 15050343 ADAMS 112(1)/101/103 Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP - West Coast HALVORSON, MARK

1651 MERCK PATENT GMBH 15121944 SCHNEIDER 103 MILLEN, WHITE, ZELANO & BRANIGAN, P.C. PAGUIO FRISING, MICHELLE F

1658 4LIFE PATENTS, LLC 14698698 POLLOCK 112(2)/101 103 Dentons Durham Jones Pinegar REYNOLDS, FRED H

1716 Applied Materials, Inc. 14291807 MCGEE 103 Moser Taboada / Applied Materials, Inc. ANTOLIN, STANISLAV

1726 First Solar, Inc. 13875739 REN 103 MacMillan, Sobanski and Todd, LLC - FIRST SOLAR BARTON, JEFFREY THOMAS

1732 W. R. GRACE & CO.-CONN. 14416469 GUPTA 103/OTDP W.R. GRACE & CO.-CONN. SLIFKA, COLIN W

1734 GENERAL ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY GMBH 14193052 HEANEY 103 GROGAN, TUCCILLO & VANDERLEEDEN, LLP NASSIRI MOTLAGH, ANITA

1734 JFE STEEL CORPORATION 14781440 PRAISS 112(2)/103/OTDP IP GROUP OF DLA PIPER LLP (US) LIANG, ANTHONY M

1742 KlKUSUI SEISAKUSHO LTD. 15422292 GAUDETTE 103 MCGINN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW GROUP, PLLC HAUTH, GALEN H

1776 OY LANGH TECH AB 14368406 HASTINGS 103 NIXON & VANDERHYE, PC SHAO, PHILLIP Y

1786 BASELL POLYOLEFINE GMBH 14774265 DENNETT 103 LyondellBasell Industries LOPEZ, RICARDO E.

1789 AXENIC POWER, LLC 15112174 REN 103 Dykema Gossett PLLC IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE

1791 Justin Samuels et al. 15168768 WILSON 103 Todd S. Sharinn c/o Gilbridge, Tusa, Last & Spellane, LLC LEBLANC, KATHERINE DEGUIRE

1791 NESTEC S.A. 14367648 WILSON 103 K&L Gates LLP-Nestec S.A. BADR, HAMID R

1792 Alice O'Donnell Kiely 11634624 COLAIANNI 112(2)/102/103 Alice O. Kiely CHAWLA, JYOTI

1793 Givaudan SA 16305992 SMITH 103 CURATOLO SIDOTI CO., LPA GEORGE, PATRICIA ANN

1793 DSM IP ASSETS B.V. 14889049 BEST 103 NIXON & VANDERHYE, PC GEORGE, PATRICIA ANN

2122 Global Analytics, Inc. 14531972 CHUNG 103 DLA PIPER LLP (US ) SECK, ABABACAR

2152 Dropbox, Inc. 15393684 STRAUSS 103 Dropbox c/o Polsinelli PC ELLIS, MATTHEW J

2156 Peter Ward et al. 12964292 NAPPI 103 Sony Corporation of America Haug Partners LLP LIAO, JASON G

2159 TARGET BRANDS INC. 14519778 McNEILL 103 Target Brands, Inc. ALMANI, MOHSEN

2182 Vivante Corporation 15422862 FETTING 101 Stevens Law Group LAROCQUE, EMILY E

2199 EMC Corporation 14633401 DESHPANDE 112(2)/103 EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC AQUINO, WYNUEL S

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2412 APPLE INC. 15179010 HOMERE 112(2) 103 Apple Inc. -- FKM KHAWAR, SAAD

2419 KOMATSU LTD. 15560177 KUMAR 103 FAEGRE DRINKER BIDDLE & REATH LLP (DC) ABAZA, AYMAN A

2419 HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. 14579793 KUMAR 103 Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd) CHUNG, HOON J

2422 Jesus Barcons-Palau et al. 13885523 BENNETT 102/103 Patent Docketing KHALID, OMER

2422 Mark Olsson et al. 15187785 PYONIN 103 Steven C. Tietsworth HAIEM, SEAN N

2432 International Business Machines Corporation 15359088 MacDONALD 102 David H. Judson Law Office of David H. Judson ANDERSON, MICHAEL D

2441 CommScope Connectivity UK Limited 14341008 PER CURIAM 112(2)/103 Fogg & Powers LLC/Commscope DUONG, OANH

2446 HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. 15137546 COURTENAY 103 Honeywell/Bookoff Intellectual Property Services Group GUZMAN, JAVIER O

2452 VMWARE, INC. 15063528 CHUNG 103 Olympic Patent Works PLLC WINDER, PATRICE L

2469 Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy 15532209 FETTING 102 SQUIRE PB (Nokia) Nokia Technologies Oy ZUNIGA ABAD, JACKIE

2481 United Technologies Corporation 14522793 ARPIN 103 CARLSON, GASKEY & OLDS/PRATT & WHITNEY NOH, JAE NAM

2612 NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD. 15764778 McNEILL 103 OSHA BERGMAN WATANABE & BURTON LLP TRAN, KIM THANH THI

2626 Stephen Ellis et al. 14090862 BISK 102/103 James J. Pingor XIE, KWIN

2632 THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 15300556 PER CURIAM 112(1)/103 HARNESS DICKEY (TROY) CADEAU, WEDNEL

2699 SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA 15255541 MORGAN 103 BIRCH STEWART KOLASCH & BIRCH, LLP PACHOL, NICHOLAS C

2829 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION 14744417 TIMM 103 CANTOR COLBURN LLP-IBM YORKTOWN CIESLEWICZ, ANETA B

2831 HARTING Electric GmbH & Co. KG 15756393 OWENS 103 41.50 103 SEED IP LAW GROUP LLP/GENERAL FIRM IMAS, VLADIMIR

2853 S.P.C.M. SA 15403811 COURTENAY 103 Forge IP, PLLC OLAMIT, JUSTIN N

2856 Kent Tabor 14847756 ROBERTSON 103 MCDONNELL BOEHNEN HULBERT & BERGHOFF LLP KOLB, NATHANIEL J

2862 HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC. et al. 14889955 DENNETT 103 Gilliam IP PLLC (Halliburton) CASEY, LIAM R

2872 Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung c.V. 14395424 HASTINGS 103 SLATER MATSIL, LLP OESTREICH, MITCHELL T

3619 MasterCard International Incorporated 15235761 CRAIG 101/103 Mastercard International Incorporated c/o Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC
KANERVO, VIRPI H

3626 TeleTracking Technologies, Inc. 15393803 TOWNSEND 101 FERENCE & ASSOCIATES LLC MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL

3627 International Business Machines Corporation 15132492 CALVE 103 Otterstedt, Wallace & Kammer, LLP MINCARELLI, JAN P

3628 John Simms et al. 15626896 FETTING 101/103 Dennis Clarke EL-BATHY, IBRAHIM N

3666 Yulun Wang et al. 12345161 GUIJT 103 Teladoc Health C/O CPA Global Part of Clarivate AMIN, BHAVESH V

3668 McAfee, Inc. 14965298 GUIJT 101 HANLEY, FLIGHT & ZIMMERMAN, LLC (McAfee) SHUDY, ANGELINA M

3685 Coinplug, Inc. 15845224 WIEDE 112(1) 112(2)/101 41.50 112(2) XSENSUS LLP CASTILHO, EDUARDO D

3686 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY 15570795 SHAW 101 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY REICHERT, RACHELLE LEIGH

3688 Facebook, Inc. 14616543 JURGOVAN 112(1)/103 101 Mannava & Kang, P. C. STROUD, CHRISTOPHER

3726 Christopher Draeger 14173013 CAPP 102/103 REINHART BOERNER VAN DEUREN P.C. SALONE, BAYAN

3734 Karen West et al. 14106691 WOODS 103 The Law Offices of Eric W Peterson THEIS, MATTHEW T

3745 UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION 14779841 CAPP 103 Getz Balich LLC CHRISTENSEN, DANIELLE M

3747 Robert Bosch GmbH 15529549 PLENZLER 103 NORTON ROSE FULBRIGHT US LLP MO, XIAO EN

3791 THE SPECTRANETICS CORPORATION 14700550 STAICOVICI 103 PHILIPS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & STANDARDS TOWA, RENE T

Rehearing

Granted-in-Part 
2859 GOPLUG BAGS, INC. 15974031 NAPPI 103 Maschoff Brennan ROBBINS, JERRY D

Denied 
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1611 ECOLAB USA INC. 13863001 NEW 103 McKee, Voorhees & Sease P.L.C. ATTN: Ecolab Inc LOVE, TREVOR M

2166 Ghosh, Rishab Aiyer. et al. 13161812 RAEVSKY 103 WOMBLE BOND DICKINSON (US) LLP/ APPLE INC. YEN, SYLING