REVERSED

1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
Ex Parte Cheikh et al PRATS 112(1) ARNOLD & PORTER LLP

Ex Parte Leneau LEBOVITZ 102(e) ICE MILLER LLP

“Appellant’s opinion on the ultimate legal issue is not evidence in the case . . . . [However,] some weight ought to be given to a persuasively supported statement of one skilled in the art on what was not obvious to him.” In re Lindell, 385 F.2d 453, 155 USPQ 521, 524 (CCPA 1967) (emphasis added).

1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
Ex Parte Ameen et al McKELVEY 103(a) ROHM AND HAAS ELECTRONIC MATERIALS

In evaluating the obviousness of a composition, it is appropriate to consider the method of preparation of the composition. In re Burt, 53 CCPA 929, 934, 356 F.2d 115, 119 (CCPA 1966).

2400 Networking, Mulitplexing, Cable, and Security
Ex Parte McIntyre et al BARRETT 103(a)/112(1) 37 C.F.R. § 41.50(b) Milton S. Sales Eastman Kodak Company

See In re Hyatt, 708 F.2d 712, 714-15 (Fed. Cir. 1983) (a single means claim which covers every conceivable means for achieving the stated purpose is nonenabling for the scope of the claim because the specification disclosed at most only those means known to the inventor).

Ex Parte Marinet et al MANTIS MERCADOR 102(b) ALLEN, DYER, DOPPELT, MILBRATH & GILCHRIST P.A.

2600 Communications
Ex Parte Shizuka et al SAADAT 103(a) OBLON, SPIVAK, MCCLELLAND MAIER & NEUSTADT, L.L.P.

Ex Parte Okada et al EASTHOM 103(a) SUGHRUE MION, PLLC

3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
Ex Parte Pitts et al CRAWFORD 103(a) Theodore W. Olds CARLSON, GASKEY & OLDS, P.C.

Ex Parte McCallum CRAWFORD 102(a) MICHAEL CHAN NCR CORPORATION

BILSKI - AFFIRMED

2600 Communications
Ex Parte Callegari et al HAIRSTON 101/103(a) CRAIN, CATON & JAMES

AFFIRMED-IN-PART

2100 Computer Architecture and Software
Ex Parte So et al BARRY 102(b)/103(a) Christopher C. Winslade McAndrews, Held & Malloy, LTD.

3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
Ex Parte Richeson STAICOVICI 102(b) JOSEPH P. CURTIN

Ex Parte Hiraguchi MEDLEY 112(2)/102(b) SUGHRUE MION, PLLC

“[A]n indefinite article ‘a’ or ‘an’ in patent parlance carries the meaning of ‘one or more’ in open-ended claims containing the transitional phrase ‘comprising.’” KCJ Corp. v. Kinetic Concepts, Inc., 223 F.3d 1351, 1356 (Fed. Cir. 2000) (citations omitted).

Ex Parte Putnam et al CRAWFORD 102(b)/103(a) Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers LLP