boesch

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REVERSED
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1792 Ex Parte Doll et al 12757314 - (D) RANGE 103 FITCH EVEN TABIN & FLANNERY, LLP THAKUR, VIREN A

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2491 Ex Parte Leong et al 14345878 - (D) CHUNG 103 LADAS & PARRY LLP POTRATZ, DANIEL B

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3671 Ex Parte Noble et al 13277791 - (D) BROWNE 103 PnnnonPhillins; Pnmnanv MAYO-PINNOCK, TARA LEIGH

3685 Ex Parte Goodrich et al 13674590 - (D) MEYERS 103 BROOKS KUSHMAN P.C. AGWUMEZIE, CHINEDU CHARLES

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3744 Ex Parte McLoughlin et al 13230402 - (D) HILL 103 Grable Martin Fulton PLLC HWU, DAVIS D

3745 Ex Parte Danielson et al 13109225 - (D) HOFFMANN 103 CARLSON, GASKEY & OLDS, P.C. PRAGER, JESSE M

3771 Ex Parte Muellner et al 13143458 - (D) BROWNE 103 MILLEN, WHITE, ZELANO & BRANIGAN, P.C. WOODWARD, VALERIE LYNN

AFFIRMED-IN-PART
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1712 Ex Parte Geraedts et al 12527715 - (D) PAK 103 103 OBLON, MCCLELLAND, MAIER & NEUSTADT, L.L.P. ROLLAND, ALEX A

Stated differently, there is no dispute that Nicola, Jr. teaches that the spacing for holes on the underside of a fixed tube dispenser is a known result effective variable, i.e., a function of the output and viscosity of the chemical used. In re Boesch, 617 F.2d 272, 276 (CCPA 1980) (“[D]iscovery of an optimum value of a result effective variable.. .is ordinarily within the skill of the art”). 

Boesch, In re, 617 F.2d 272, 205 USPQ 215 (CCPA 1980) 716.02(b) , 2144.05

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3737 Ex Parte Olsen et al 13087736 - (D) MURPHY 112(4)/102/103 103 SHUMAKER & SIEFFERT , P.A SMITH, RUTH S

AFFIRMED
1612 Ex Parte Gibson et al 13122596 - (D) ADAMS 103 GlaxoSmithKline WEBB, WALTER E

1616 Ex Parte Nowakowski et al 12304823 - (D) ADAMS 103 SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION LLC HOLT, ANDRIAE M

1627 Ex Parte Raboisson et al 12443190 - (D) FLAX 103 Baker & Hostetler LLP WANG, SHENGJUN

1655 Ex Parte Yang et al 13355530 - (D) SCHNEIDER 112(1)/112(2)/103 WANG & HO FIEBIG, RUSSELL G

Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1787 Ex Parte HLAVINKA et al 13224785 - (D) DENNETT 103 CHEVRON PHILLIPS CHEMICAL COMPANY SHAH, SAMIR

2113 Ex Parte Daily et al 13671331 - (D) HOMERE 102 ROCKWELL AUTOMATION, INC / SR RIAD, AMINE

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2421 Ex Parte Lin et al 12472953 - (D) PINKERTON 103 FOUNTAINHEAD LAW GROUP, PC MONTOYA, OSCHTA I

2427 Ex Parte KOTECHA et al 13310052 - (D) CUTITTA 112(1) 103 VERIZON SCHNURR, JOHN R

2476 Ex Parte SHUKLA et al 12976200 - (D) STRAUSS 103 Cooley LLP Juniper Networks, Inc. CHAU, PETER P

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2614 Ex Parte Umezu et al 13117468 - (D) BEAMER 103 NIXON & VANDERHYE, P.C. NGUYEN, ANH TUAN V

2636 Ex Parte Cavaliere et al 12675018 - (D) CHEN 103 NIXON & VANDERHYE, PC CURS, NATHAN M

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3621 Ex Parte Raley et al 10388161 - (S) MEDLOCK 112(1) 101 Reed Smith LLP ZELASKIEWICZ, CHRYSTINA E

3637 Ex Parte BRANDT et al 12962107 - (D) KORNICZKY 102/103 MICHAEL W. TAYLOR WILKENS, JANET MARIE

3671 Ex Parte Ertmer 13124878 - (D) BROWNE 102/103 MAYER & WILLIAMS PC MISA, JOAN D

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3744 Ex Parte Vistakula 12527757 - (D) O’HANLON 103 GOODWIN PROCTER LLP JENKINS, PHILLIP S

3747 Ex Parte Herden et al 12304087 - (D) PESLAK 103 NORTON ROSE FULBRIGHT US LLP HOANG, JOHNNY H

3765 Ex Parte Hughes et al 13170992 - (D) DOUGAL 103 CAESAR RIVISE, PC HADEN, SALLY CLINE

REHEARING

DENIED
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1634 Ex Parte Chettier et al 13364378 - (R) GRIMES 101/103 Schramm-Personal-ACT KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS

jacoby

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REVERSED
Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3754 Ex Parte Pinkalla et al 14018097 - (D) HOELTER 103 HANLEY, FLIGHT & ZIMMERMAN, LLC JACYNA, J CASIMER

AFFIRMED-IN-PART
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1791 Ex Parte Orthoefer et al 12711798 - (D) NAGUMO 103 103 Magleby Cataxinos & Greenwood/Dow AgroSciences LLC TARAZANO, DONALD LAWRENCE

AFFIRMED
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1786 Ex Parte Zou 13382176 - (D) RANGE 103 Carestream Health, Inc. THOMPSON, CAMIE S

2196 Ex Parte Charters et al 10907034 - (D) NAPPI 102/103 CRGO LAW CAO, DIEM K

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2424 Ex Parte HINIC 13051836 - (D) BEAMER 103 HEINZ GRETHER PC SHEPARD, JUSTIN E

2487 Ex Parte JAGANNATHAN et al 13533075 - (D) POTHIER dissenting BAUMEISTER 102/103 TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED LI, TRACY Y

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2622 Ex Parte IKEDA et al 12606860 - (D) PYONIN 103 Paratus Law Group, PLLC RAYAN, MIHIR K

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3623 Ex Parte Dillard et al 12496004 - (D) MEDLOCK 103 101/103 THOMAS I HORSTEMEYER, LLP MANSFIELD, THOMAS L

3665 Ex Parte Mitchell et al 11862395 - (D) KORNICZKY 103 Parsons Behle & Latimer KIM, KYUNG J

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3726 Ex Parte Desireddy et al 13458317 - (D) CAPP 103 Conley Rose, P.C. TRANE International Inc. HIDALGO-HERNANDEZ, RUTH G

An artisan must be presumed to know something about the art apart from what the references disclose. See In re Jacoby, 309 F.2d 513, 516 (CCPA 1962)

3782 Ex Parte Plourde 13192527 - (D) DOUGAL 103 McCarter & English LLP ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC. ATTEL, NINA KAY

lantech, robertson

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REVERSED
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1629 Ex Parte Tsuruta 12064677 - (D) FREDMAN 103 RICHARD ARON OSMAN FINN, MEGHAN R

Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1744 Ex Parte Fuergut et al 13332737 - (D) KENNEDY 102/103 41.50 102 SLATER MATSIL, LLP HEITBRINK, TIMOTHY W

Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2122 Ex Parte Chen et al 12362209 - (D) JEFFERY 103 MILES & STOCKBRIDGE P.C. Oracle International Corporation RIFKIN, BEN M

It is well settled that where, as here, a claim requires two separate elements, one element construed as having two separate functions will not suffice to meet the claim’s terms. See Lantech, Inc. v. Keip Mach. Co., 32 F.3d 542, 547 (Fed. Cir. 1994); see also In re Robertson, 169 F.3d 743, 745 (Fed. Cir. 1999) (claims requiring three separate means not anticipated by structure containing only two means using one element twice).

Lantech Inc. v. Kaufman Co. of Ohio, Inc., 878 F.2d 1446, 12 USPQ2d 1076 (Fed. Cir. 1989) 2145

Robertson, In re, 169 F.3d 743, 49 USPQ2d 1949 (Fed. Cir. 1999) 2112 , 2114 , 2163 , 2163.07(a)

2159 Ex Parte Bolohan et al 13563465 - (D) McNEILL 103 Shumaker & Sieffert, P.A. CONYERS, DAWAUNE A

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2628 Ex Parte Dearman et al 13590750 - (D) MORGAN 103 Alston & Bird LLP Nokia Corporation ONYEKABA, AMY

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3763 Ex Parte DIXON 13022482 - (D) PER CURIAM 103 QUARLES & BRADY LLP SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE

AFFIRMED-IN-PART
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1725 Ex Parte Perkins et al 12796471 - (D) LEBOVITZ 112(2)/102/103 103 41.50 103 Rutan & Tucker, LLP MERKLING, MATTHEW J

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2435 Ex Parte Rajagopalan et al 13755195 - (D) ENGLE 103 103 Hewlett Packard Enterprise DADA, BEEMNET W

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2662 Ex Parte Cote et al 13485235 - (D) MORGAN 102 103 Fletcher Yoder, PC APPLE INC. - Fletcher PHAM, QUAN L

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3731 Ex Parte Carrison 13777409 - (D) PESLAK 102/103 102/103 Bookoff McAndrews, PLLC SZPIRA, JULIE ANN

AFFIRMED
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1765 Ex Parte Desbois et al 13128502 - (D) PRAISS 103 Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP (WM) LISTVOYB, GREGORY

1797 Ex Parte Piorek et al 13390664 - (D) HEANEY 103 NUPAT, LLC (ONDA VIA CASES) EOM, ROBERT J

Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2139 Ex Parte Bell et al 13767916 - (D) HOWARD 102/103 THE LAW OFFICE OF JAMES BAUDINO, PLLC IBM CORP. (AUS) NAMAZI, MEHDI

2179 Ex Parte Lalmalani et al 13653306 - (D) McNEILL 101/103 WORKMAN NYDEGGER/MICROSOFT LEVY, AMY M

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2459 Ex Parte NICKOLS 13170483 - (D) KUMAR 102/103 VERIZON NGUYEN, LINH T

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2643 Ex Parte LEPPÄNEN et al 13691201 - (D) PINKERTON 102/103 Ditthavong & Steiner, P.C. NEALON, WILLIAM

2667 Ex Parte HWANG et al 12416850 - (D) MORGAN 103 QUALCOMM INCORPORATED RAHMJOO, MANUCHEHR

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3685 Ex Parte Vadhri 12211891 - (D) MEDLOCK 103 SCHWEGMAN LUNDBERG & WOESSNER/EBAY WINTER, JOHN M

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3762 Ex Parte Rezai et al 13781936 - (D) HOELTER 103 TAROLLI, SUNDHEIM, COVELL & TUMMINO L.L.P. FLORY, CHRISTOPHER A

REHEARING

DENIED
Tech Center 2600 Communications
2641 Ex Parte Cudak et al 13339903 - (D) KENNY 101/102/103 CRGO LAW BEHNAMIAN, SHAHRIAR

sakraida

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AFFIRMED
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1625 Ex Parte NAGUIB et al 13589155 - (D) PRATS 103 41.50 103 Yousry Naguib JARRELL, NOBLE E

 (“[W]hen a patent ‘simply arranges old elements with each performing the same function it had been known to perform’ and yields no more than one would expect from such an arrangement, the combination is obvious.”) (quoting Sakraida v. Ag Pro, Inc., 425 U.S. 273 (1976)). 

Sakraida v. Ag Pro, Inc., 425 U.S. 273, 189 USPQ 449 (1979)  716.01(a) ,  2141

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3681 Ex Parte Paradies 11215598 - (D) MEDLOCK 112(2)/103 Wolfe-SBMC BRANDENBURG, WILLIAM A

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3731 Ex Parte Pandya 12270525 - (D) HOELTER 112(1)/112(2) 102 DAVID L. KING, SR OU, JING RUI

content extraction, cyberfone, electric power

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AFFIRMED-IN-PART
Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2487 Ex Parte Flemming et al 13122437 - (D) WINSOR 103 103 CROWELL & MORING LLP RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2623 Ex Parte Hammad et al 12258322 - (D) MOHANTY 103 112(2) KILPATRICK TOWNSEND & STOCKTON LLP/VISA MARCUS, LELAND R.

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3646 Ex Parte Eriksson et al 12763049 - (D) DOUGAL 112(2)/103 103 THE SMALL PATENT LAW GROUP LLC BURKE, SEAN P

AFFIRMED
Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2172 Ex Parte Skultety-Betz 12306419 - (D) AMUNDSON 103 Maginot, Moore & Beck LLP GREENE, SABRINA LETICIA

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2447 Ex Parte HARPUR et al 13270422 - (D) BAUMEISTER 103 Cuenot, Forsythe & Kim, LLC LIN, SHERMAN L

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2648 Ex Parte Nannarone et al 13412052 - (D) DIXON 102/103 CHOATE, HALL & STEWART LLP SANDIFORD, DEVAN A

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3625 Ex Parte Singhal 13524067 - (D) MEDLOCK 101/102 41.50 101 Tara Chand Sighal MISIASZEK, MICHAEL

In this regard, the claims are similar to the claims that the Federal Circuit determined were patent ineligible in Content Extraction & Transmission v. Wells Fargo Bank, 776 F.3d 1343 (Fed. Cir. 2014) and Cyberfone Systems, LLC v. CNN Interactive Group, Inc., 558 F.App’x 988 (Fed. Cir. 2014) (non-precedential), and more recently, in Elec. Power Grp. LLC v. Alstom, 830 F.3d 1350 (Fed. Cir. 2016).

In Content Extraction, the Federal Circuit considered the patent eligibility of a method claim for “processing information from a diversity of types of hard copy documents.”  Content Extraction, 776 F.3d at 1345.  Applying step one of the Alice framework, the Federal Circuit determined that the claim was “drawn to the abstract idea of 1) collecting data, 2) recognizing certain data within the collected data set, and 3) storing that recognized data in a memory” — concepts that the court noted were “undisputedly well-known.”  Id. at 1347.

In Cyberfone, the court evaluated a method claim reciting steps that required “obtaining data, ‘exploding’ the data, i.e., separating it into component parts, and sending those parts to different destinations.”  Cyberfone, 558 F.App’x at 990.  The Federal Circuit held that this claim involved an abstract idea, explaining that “using categories to organize, store, and transmit information is well-established,” and that “the well-known concept of categorical data storage, i.e., the idea of collecting information in classified form, then separating and transmitting that information according to its classification, is an abstract idea that is not patent-eligible.”  Id. at 992.  

In Electric Power, the method claims at issue were directed to performing real-time performance monitoring of an electric power grid by collecting data from multiple data sources, analyzing the data, and displaying the results.  Elec. Power Grp., 830 F.3d at 1351–52.  There, the Federal Circuit held that the claims were directed to an abstract idea because “[t]he advance they purport to make is a process of gathering and analyzing information of a specified content, then displaying the results, and not any particular assertedly inventive technology for performing those functions.”  Id. at 1354.  

Similarly here, we find that claims 1, 7, and 13 involve nothing more than collecting data and, in the case of claims 1 and 7, transferring the data from one destination to another — activities squarely within the realm of abstract ideas.

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3764 Ex Parte SLAYTON et al 13013931 - (D) PER CURIAM 102 THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY LEE, JOSHUA S

shortridge, intouch

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REVERSED
Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3693 Ex Parte Shakkarwar 13651219 - (D) BAYAT 103 41.50 101 PATTERSON & SHERIDAN, L.L.P. MAGUIRE, LINDSAY M

 Merely combining several abstract ideas does not render the combination any less abstract. Cf. Shortridge v. Found. Constr. Payroll Serv., LLC, No. 14-CV-04850-JCS, 2015 WL 1739256, *11 (N.D. Cal. Apr. 14, 2015), aff’d, No. 2015-1898, 2016 WL 3742816 (Fed. Cir. July 13,2016).

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3761 Ex Parte GRONAU et al 12766424 - (D) PER CURIAM 103 FISH & RICHARDSON P.C. (FRESENIUS) TOWNSEND, GUY K

AFFIRMED-IN-PART
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1627 Ex Parte Monks et al 10967232 - (D) FREDMAN 103 103 Abel Law Group, LLP JEAN-LOUIS, SAMIRA JM

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2682 Ex Parte Johnson et al 13417267 - (D) ENGLE 103 103 AGCO Corporation, IP Legal WANG, JACK K

For example, the Federal Circuit has held that testimony “succumbed to hindsight bias” when it “primarily consisted of conclusory references to her belief that one of ordinary skill in the art could combine these references, not that they would have been motivated to do so.” InTouch Techs., Inc. v. VGO Commc’ns, Inc., 751 F.3d 1327, 1352 (Fed. Cir. 2014).

AFFIRMED
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1637 Ex Parte Klunder et al 12999641 - (D) FREDMAN 103 PHILIPS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & STANDARDS HORLICK, KENNETH R

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2425 Ex Parte Martin et al 13527520 - (D) MacDONALD 103 FARJAMI & FARJAMI LLP DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC. GEE, ALEXANDER

2485 Ex Parte Zustak et al 13794000 - (D) HOMERE 102/103 ROGITZ & ASSOCIATES HAGHANI, SHADAN E

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3657 Ex Parte BRUEGGEMANN et al 13024937 - (D) O’HANLON 103 NORTON ROSE FULBRIGHT US LLP NGUYEN, XU AN LAN T

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3763 Ex Parte Beasley et al 11146807 - (D) PER CURIAM 103 Rutan & Tucker, LLP FLICK, JASON E

REHEARING

DENIED
Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3735 Ex Parte Giftakis et al 12751508 - (D) PER CURIAM 103 SHUMAKER & SIEFFERT , P.A WEARE, MEREDITH H

REEXAMINATION

AFFIRMED
Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3736 MEDTRONIC, INC. Respondent, Requester v. ROBERT BOSCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS, INC. Appellant, Patent Owner Ex Parte 7,252,636 B2 et al 11/150,145 95002234 - (D) HOFF 103 Robert Bosch LLC Third Party Requester: MERCHANT & GOULD, PC NGUYEN, LINH M original ASTORINO, MICHAEL C

content extraction

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REVERSED
Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2128 Ex Parte CRAMER et al 13047185 - (D) KENNY 102 41.50 103 STERNE, KESSLER, GOLDSTEIN & FOX P.L.L.C. ALHIJA, SAIF A

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2682 Ex Parte Niederhuefner 13345284 - (D) BARRY 102/103 REINHART BOERNER VAN DEUREN P.C. AKHTER, SHARMIN

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3624 Ex Parte Bodin et al 11843945 - (D) LORIN 112(2)/103 41.50 101 IBM CORPORATION (RHF) VIZVARY, GERALD C

3629 Ex Parte Nations et al 13339164 - (D) BAYAT 103 41.50 101 TARGET BRANDS, INC. WHITAKER, ANDREW B

3633 Ex Parte Metten 13097177 - (D) ASTORINO 103 NEXSEN PRUET, LLC (GREENVILLE OFFICE) DEMUREN, BABAJIDE A

3662 Ex Parte Leyerle 12341690 - (D) REIMERS 103 REISING ETHINGTON P.C. General Motors Corporation ALSOMIRI, MAJDI A

3695 Ex Parte DAVIS et al 13593061 - (D) FISCHETTI 103 WHITHAM, CURTIS & COOK, P.C. DASS, HARISH T

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3742 Ex Parte Thomasson 12072209 - (D) REIMERS 103 MARVIN A. GLAZER PAIK, SANG YEOP

3788 Ex Parte LEVY et al 13569444 - (D) REIMERS 103 WELSH FLAXMAN & GITLER LLC DESAI, KAUSHIKKUMAR A

AFFIRMED-IN-PART
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1783 Ex Parte Moon et al 12661948 - (D) PAK 103 112(2)/102 EMCH, SCHAFFER, SCHAUB & PORCELLO CO PLESZCZYNSKA, JOANNA

Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2172 Ex Parte BOHMS 12559625 - (D) MORGAN 112(2)/102/103 103 LAW OFFICE OF STEVEN R. OLSEN, PLLC ABOU EL SEOUD, MOHAMED

2177 Ex Parte Kloiber et al 12870497 - (D) FENICK 103 103 Sprinkle IP Law Group/OPEN HUYNH, THU V

2177 Ex Parte Reeves et al 11461087 - (D) KENNY 103 103 DALY, CROWLEY, MOFFORD & DITRKEE, LLP FABER, DAVID

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2467 Ex Parte Bryan 12180348 - (D) MORGAN 103 103 Baker Botts LLP TSEGAYE, SABA

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2648 Ex Parte TRAPPENIERS et al 11842924 - (D) CURCURI 103 103 FAY SHARPE/LUCENT HUANG, WEN WU

AFFIRMED
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1619 Ex Parte Haskel et al 13488952 - (D) NEW 103 COLGATE-PALMOLIVE COMPANY GREENE, IVAN A

1734 Ex Parte Suchak 13590424 - (D) GUPTA 103 The Linde Group NASSIRI MOTLAGH, ANITA

1759 Ex Parte Cooper et al 12416075 - (D) RANGE 103 FITCH EVEN TAB IN & FLANNERY, LLP TAI, XIUYU

1759 Ex Parte Kozinsky et al 12437822 - (D) RANGE 103 FITCH EVEN TAB IN & FLANNERY, LLP TAI, XIUYU

1777 Ex Parte JOHNSTON-HALL et al 12973508 - (D) RANGE 102/103 Evoqua Water Technologies LLC MENON, KRISHNAN S

1786 Ex Parte Dwiggins et al 13205268 - (D) FRANKLIN 112(1) 103 Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP CHOI, PETER Y

1787 Ex Parte Nagasaka et al 13262395 - (D) ROESEL 103 KRATZ, QUINTOS & HANSON, LLP SHUKLA, KRUPA

Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2126 Ex Parte Locker et al 12198979 - (D) MORGAN 103 ROGITZ & ASSOCIATES DUNN, DARRIN D

2185 Ex Parte Gay et al 13082282 - (D) KENNY 103 HP Inc. DANG, KHANH

2191 Ex Parte Chen et al 13524113 - (D) MANTIS MERCADER 112(1) 103/double patenting STEVENS & SHOWALTER, L.L.P. BOX IBM DENG, ANNA CHEN

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2427 Ex Parte Beadle et al 11812781 - (D) MANTIS MERCADER 103 Tarolli, Sundheim, Co veil & Tummino LLP/Imagine Corporation CORBO, NICHOLAS T

2436 Ex Parte VÄHÄ-SIPILÄ et al 13071209 - (D) McKEOWN 112(2)/103 Ditthavong & Steiner, P.C. LE, KHOI V

2454 Ex Parte YELLAPRAGADA 13402197 - (D) MANTIS MERCADER 112(2) 103 Pillsbury Whithrop Shaw Pittman LLP (CA, Inc.) BOOK, PHYLLIS A

2476 Ex Parte Yu et al 13044301 - (D) KENNY 103 PARK, VAUGHAN, FLEMING & DOWLER LLP — Brocade Communications Systems Inc. WEIDNER, TIMOTHY J

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2611 Ex Parte Drebin et al 13495597 - (D) LENTIVECH 103 Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & G (Apple) TUNG, KEE M

2619 Ex Parte Zhang et al 12531906 - (D) MORGAN 103 THOMSON Licensing LLC MEROUAN, ABDERRAHIM

2659 Ex Parte Liu et al 12493965 - (D) MORGAN 103 Core Wireless Licensing Ltd ARMSTRONG, ANGELA A

2692 Ex Parte Sung et al 12641169 - (D) MORGAN 112(2)/103 APPLE c/o MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP LA MERKOULOVA, OLGA VLADIMIROVNA

2694 Ex Parte Zheng et al 13213210 - (D) MORGAN 103 SIEMENS CORPORATION MOON, SEOKYUN

2696 Ex Parte Greb et al 11949830 - (D) AMUNDSON 103 TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED LUBIT, RYAN A

Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2817 Ex Parte Kelber 13426823 - (D) BAIN 103 The Kelber Law Group TRAN, THANH Y

2854 Ex Parte Teng 12176377 - (D) PRAISS 103 GARY GANGHUI TENG ZIMMERMAN, JOSHUA D

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3624 Ex Parte McDaniel et al 13742024 - (D) MEYERS 101/103 Noble Systems Corporation SCHEUNEMANN, RICHARD N

3626 Ex Parte Agnihotri et al 12747602 - (D) LORIN 103 101 PHILIPS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & STANDARDS RAJ, RAJIV J

That the claim includes more words than the Examiner relied upon to articulate the abstract idea is an insufficient reason to persuasively argue that claim 1 is not directed to an abstract idea. Cf. Content Extraction & Transmission LLC v. Wells Fargo Bank, Nat. Ass ’n, 776 F.3d 1343, 1347 (Fed. Cir. 2014), cert, denied, 136 S. Ct. 119, 193 F. Ed. 2d 208 (2015) (holding that claims reciting “1) collecting data, 2) recognizing certain data within the collected data set, and 3) storing that recognized data in a memory” were drawn to an abstract idea)

3671 Ex Parte Brown 13757272 - (D) KINDER 102/103 Atlanta Raker Dnnelsinn CHU, KATHERINE J

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3724 Ex Parte Hada et al 13183584 - (D) WARNER 103 KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC. CHOI, STEPHEN

3741 Ex Parte Costa et al 12636388 - (D) WARNER 102/103 O'Shea Getz P.C. SUNG, GERALD LUTHER

3777 Ex Parte Mannheimer et al 13292956 - (D) REIMERS 103/double patenting Covidien LP LIU, CHU CHUAN

REHEARING

GRANTED
Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2437 Ex Parte Fitzgibbon et al 13777787 - (D) MANTIS MERCADER 103 41.50 103 FITCH EVEN TAB IN & FLANNERY, LLP LANIER, BENJAMIN E

DENIED
Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2163 Ex Parte Kimber 13525363 - (R) MORGAN 103 CRGO LAW HO, BINH VAN

Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2855 Ex Parte Cudini et al 10584276 - (R) PRAISS 103 BACON & THOMAS, PLLC DEVITO, ALEX T

REEXAMINATION

AFFIRMED
Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2157 MEDTRONIC, INC., MEDTRONIC CARE MANAGEMENT SERVICES, LLC, AND CARDIOCOM, INC., Requesters, v. ROBERT BOSCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS, INC. and HEALTH HERO NETWORK, INC., Patent Owner Ex Parte 6968375 et al 09/658,209 95002237 - (D) HOFF 103 Robert Bosch LLC ROBERT BOSCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS, INC. Counsel for Third Party Requester: Mercant & Gould PC KE, PENG original SALAD, ABDULLAHI ELMI

arendi

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REVERSED
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1639 Ex Parte Roos et al 13512924 - (D) JENKS 103/double patenting Agilent Technologies, Inc. in care of: CPA Global SMITH, JONAH

Reliance on common knowledge or common sense in an obviousness rejection is applicable to “to provide a known motivation to combine, [but] not to supply a missing claim limitation” Arendi S.A.R.L. v. Apple Inc., 832 F.3d 1355, 1361 (2016)(“[W]hile ‘common sense’ can be invoked, even potentially to supply a limitation missing from the prior art, it must still be supported by evidence and a reasoned explanation”)).

Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1717 Ex Parte HEULINGS et al 13718085 - (D) BEST 103 ROHM AND HAAS COMPANY The Dow Chemical Company WALTERS JR, ROBERT S

1726 Ex Parte FRISK et al 13353453 - (D) GUPTA 102 E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY DOVE, TRACY MAE

1788 Ex Parte Belpaire 13061685 - (D) ROSS 103 BUCHANAN, INGERSOLL & ROONEY PC NORDMEYER, PATRICIA L

Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2182 Ex Parte MARWINSKI et al 12238681 - (D) DROESCH 102/103 SAP SE VICARY, KEITH E

2193 Ex Parte Blumenberg 13221836 - (D) McKEOWN 103 Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP/AI DAO, TUAN C.

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2458 Ex Parte Wood 13027422 - (D) YAP 103 Roy W. Truelson RAHMAN, SM AZIZUR

2485 Ex Parte Hofman et al 13448751 - (D) McMILLIN 103 BAKER BOTTS L.L.P. SUH, JOSEPH JINWOO

Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2829 Ex Parte PING et al 13407855 - (D) MANTIS MERCADER 112(1)/112(2)/101/102 Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc. MAI, ANH D

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3625 Ex Parte Mesaros 13525040 - (D) CRAWFORD concurring LORIN 103 Lewis Roca Rothgerber LLP - eWinWin Inc. FADOK, MARK A

3686 Ex Parte Itagaki et al 12598168 - (D) LORIN 103 41.50 101 COOPER & DUNHAM, LLP REYES, REGINALD R

3694 Ex Parte Graves 13484895 - (D) HUTCHINGS 103 41.50 101 Hewlett Packard Enterprise GREGG, MARY M

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3711 Ex Parte Rickard 14604356 - (D) CALVE 103 Bay Area Technolgy Law Group PC VANDERVEEN, JEFFREY S

AFFIRMED-IN-PART
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1655 Ex Parte Burgos et al 13076117 - (D) SMITH 112(2) 101 PHARMACEUTICAL PATENT ATTORNEYS, LLC CLARK, AMY LYNN

1673 Ex Parte Bombardelli et al 12856786 - (D) MAJORS 103 103 Jones Day JIANG, SHAOJIA A

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2423 Ex Parte STECK 13916132 - (D) HUGHES 103 103 Artegis Law Group, L.L.P. / Netflix TESFAYE, AKLIL M

Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2896 Ex Parte LIANG et al 13085745 - (D) FRANKLIN 103 112(2) Hauptman Ham, LLP (TSMC) MIYOSHI, JESSE Y

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3621 Ex Parte HORADAN et al 13114780 - (D) SILVERMAN 103 103 Mersenne Law MANDEL, MONICA A

3643 Ex Parte OELTJEN et al 12476076 - (D) ASTORINO 103 112(2) PATENTS ON DEMAND, P.A.-General ALKER, KATHLEEN IWASAKI

AFFIRMED
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1653 Ex Parte Awad et al 10874402 - (D) NEW 112(2) 112(1) MAGINOT, MOORE & BECK, LLP FOX, ALLISON M

Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1716 Ex Parte Gum et al 12826446 - (D) SQUIRE 103/double patenting LANDO & ANASTASI, LLP HASSANZADEH, PARVIZ

1779 Ex Parte Biltoft et al 12439209 - (D) SQUIRE 103 Evoqua Water Technologies LLC ORME, PATRICK JAMES

1787 Ex Parte Di Cocco et al 12097415 - (D) COLAIANNI 103 Perman & Green, LLP FUNG, CHING-YIU

1788 Ex Parte Enomura 13121393 - (D) DERRICK 103 Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP MANGOHIG, THOMAS A

1788 Ex Parte Wadley et al 12673418 - (D) DERRICK 112(2)/103 Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP (UVA) VO, HAI

1791 Ex Parte Gutknecht et al 13341434 - (D) HASTINGS 103 JAY BROWN LAW FIRM GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A

Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2129 Ex Parte SCHINDLER 13777416 - (D) YAP 112(1)/103 112(1)/112(2) Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP SMITH, PAULINHO E

2137 Ex Parte Dumitru et al 12104979 - (D) PINKERTON 102/103 Van Dyke Law SIMONETTI, NICHOLAS J

2141 Ex Parte Faenger 12621728 - (D) ZADO 102/103 Maginot, Moore & Beck LLP NG, AMY

2173 Ex Parte Defoort et al 11574030 - (D) ZADO 101/103 CRGO LAW BYCER, ERIC J

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2422 Ex Parte Pendarvis 12974537 - (D) DROESCH 103 BANNER & WITCOFF , LTD TEITELBAUM, MICHAEL E

2477 Ex Parte Carlin et al 13678603 - (D) SZPONDOWSKI 103 41.50 103 MARTIN & ASSOCIATES, LLC SEFCHECK, GREGORY B

2491 Ex Parte AUSTIN et al 12817985 - (D) JEFFERY 103 VMWARE, INC. POPHAM, JEFFREY D

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2611 Ex Parte Donner 13546172 - (D) DANG 103 THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY SHENG, XIN

2655 Ex Parte Tsurumi 13274802 - (D) CHEN 102/103 Paratus Law Group, PLLC SAUNDERS JR, JOSEPH

2657 Ex Parte Jung 12318053 - (D) MANTIS MERCADER 103 STAAS & HALSEY LLP KAZEMINEZHAD, FARZAD

2691 Ex Parte Rhee et al 12831369 - (D) MANTIS MERCADER 103 THE FARRELL LAW FIRM, P.C. BLANCHA, JONATHAN M

Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2842 Ex Parte Madeira et al 13338111 - (D) PAK 102/103 ADDMG - ST COLE, BRANDON S

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3627 Ex Parte Chien et al 12242352 - (D) McSHANE 103 Mauriel Kapouytian Woods LLP ORTIZ ROMAN, DENISSE Y

3631 Ex Parte Mollinger et al 13557203 - (D) STEPHENS 112(1)/102/103/double patenting STANDLEY LAW GROUP LLP SAFAVI, MICHAEL

3649 Ex Parte Gubbins et al 12571959 - (D) MANTIS MERCADER 112(1)/103 HolzerlPLaw, P.C. OLSON, JASON C

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3714 Ex Parte Guinn et al 12968269 - (D) BROWN 103 DELIZIO LAW, PLLC BALLY MYHR, JUSTIN L

3744 Ex Parte Sarraf et al 13074987 - (D) KINDER 103 MICHAEL BEST & FRIEDRICH LLP (Mke) FLANIGAN, ALLEN J

3748 Ex Parte Kopp 12552844 - (D) BROWN 103 MAIER & MAIER, PLLC LARGI, MATTHEW THOMAS

3776 Ex Parte NAVARRO et al 12058741 - (D) WARNER 103 CONLEY ROSE, P.C. STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING

3777 Ex Parte Paul et al 12744201 - (D) PER CURIAM 103 DYKEMA GOSSETT PLLC (STJ) GUPTA, VANI

REEXAMINATION

REVERSED
Tech Center 2600 Communications
2618 CBS INTERACTIVE INC., THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY, G4 MEDIA, LLC, and BRAVO MEDIA LLC, Third Party Requesters, v. HELFERICH PATENT LICENSING, LLC, Patent Owner. Ex Parte 7,835,757 et al 12/764,025 95001984 - (D) BAUMEISTER 103 LAW OFFICES OF STEVEN G. LISA, LTD. INTELLEVATE, LLC. Third Party Requester: COVINGTON & BURLING, LLP TRAN, HENRY N original NGUYEN, TUAN HOANG

AFFIRMED
Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3736 BASIS SCIENCE, INC. Requester v. BODY MEDIA, INC. Patent Owner Ex Parte 7261690 et al original 09/923,181 95002366 - (D) BRANCH 102/103 KILPATRICK TOWNSEND & STOCKTON LLP THIRD PARTY REQUESTER: FENWICK & WEST LLP RALIS, STEPHEN J original ASTORINO, MICHAEL C

hedges, schulhauser

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REVERSED
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1782 Ex Parte Foegler et al 10588477 - (D) FRANKLIN 103 ProPat, LLC SANDERSON, LEE E

“It is impermissible within the framework of section 103 to pick and choose from any one reference only so much of it as will support a given position, to the exclusion of other parts necessary to the full appreciation of what such reference fairly suggests to one of ordinary skill in the art.”  See In re Hedges, 783 F.2d 1038, 1041 (Fed. Cir. 1986) (citations omitted)).

Hedges, In re, 783 F.2d 1038, 228 USPQ 685 (Fed. Cir. 1986) 2145

1788 Ex Parte Ambrose et al 13735409 - (D) FRANKLIN 103 PPG Industries, Inc. VO, HAI

Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2128 Ex Parte Bomholt et al 12692000 - (D) NAPPI 102/103 SYNOPSYS, INC. C/O HAYNES BEFFEL & WOLFELD LLP JONES, HUGH M

AFFIRMED-IN-PART
Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2472 Ex Parte Lidstrom et al 13121957 - (D) BENNETT 103 103 41.50 103 Clairvolex Inc. AHMED, ABDULLAHI

Before we consider the teachings of Jagannathan and Trandal, however, we first address the issue of claim scope in light of this Board’s recent precedential decision in Ex Parte Schulhauser, Appeal No. 2013-007848 (PTAB April 28, 2016) (“Schulhauser”). In Schulhauser, the Board held, when construing a method claim according to its broadest reasonable interpretation, conditional steps in process claims need not be carried out to be within the scope of the claim. Schulhauser at 8.

AFFIRMED
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1613 Ex Parte Tanaka et al 12701084 - (D) MAJORS 103/double patenting THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY ROSENTHAL, ANDREW S

Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2128 Ex Parte Chen et al 12758647 - (D) BENNETT 103 Wolfe-SBMC COTHRAN, BERNARD E

2158 Ex Parte Meng et al 11844507 - (D) HAMANN 101/103 Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP (CA, Inc.) WILLIS, AMANDA LYNN

2159 Ex Parte Harvey et al 12525746 - (D) BUI 112(2) 102 Williams Mullen SPIELER, WILLIAM

2164 Ex Parte Higgins et al 12357345 - (D) STRAUSS 103 BERKELEY LAW & TECHNOLOGY GROUP LLP MAHMOOD, REZWANUL

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2436 Ex Parte Hsieh et al 12014105 - (D) BEAMER 103 NORTH AMERICA INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION TRAORE, FATOUMATA

2461 Ex Parte Gröhlich et al 13383803 - (D) FRAHM 103 Cozen O'Connor MATTIS, JASON E

2461 Ex Parte Wentink 12711725 - (D) SMITH 103 QUALCOMM INCORPORATED HALL, TEISHA DANEA

2479 Ex Parte Lin et al 13387319 - (D) ENGLE 103 Hewlett Packard Enterprise RIVAS, SALVADOR E

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2633 Ex Parte Nikaein 13196752 - (D) ENGLE 103 PARKER JUSTISS, P.C. CORRIELUS, JEAN B

2658 Ex Parte Lim 13298629 - (D) BRANCH 103 GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP GODBOLD, DOUGLAS

2693 Ex Parte Miwa et al 13513157 - (D) STRAUSS 103 Global OLED Technology LLC EURICE, MICHAEL

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3651 Ex Parte Yechuri 13299860 - (D) PESLAK 103 NCR Corporation WAGGONER, TIMOTHY R

3689 Ex Parte WEISS et al 13281822 - (D) CRAWFORD 103 MILES & STOCKBRIDGE PC MOONEYHAM, JANICE A

3691 Ex Parte Barrie et al 13088424 - (D) FISCHETTI 103 AMIN, TUROCY & WATSON, LLP PRESTON, JOHN O

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3726 Ex Parte Suciu et al 13417615 - (D) SMEGAL 103 Kinney & Lange, P.A. YOO, JUN S

3732 Ex Parte Gantes 12245697 - (D) O’HANLON 112(1)/112(2)/103 Rutan & Tucker, LLP APONTE, MIRAYDA ARLENE