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Thursday, March 24, 2011

REVERSED

1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1642 Ex Parte Scholl et al 11/830,604 ADAMS WALSH dissenting 103(a) MYRIAD GENETICS INC. EXAMINER AEDER, SEAN E

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Ben Venue Labs., Inc., 246 F.3d 1368, 1376 (Fed. Cir. 2001) (“Newly discovered results of known processes directed to the same purpose are not patentable because such results are inherent.”)

1627
Ex Parte Gorissen et al 10/381,714 GREEN 103(a) FINNEGAN, HENDERSON, FARABOW, GARRETT & DUNNER LLP EXAMINER CHONG, YONG SOO

1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering

1726 Ex Parte Ulmer et al 10/674,053 HASTINGS 103(a) HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY EXAMINER LEWIS, BEN

1765 Ex Parte Richter et al 11/333,575 GARRIS 103(a) CONNOLLY BOVE LODGE & HUTZ, LLP EXAMINER SERGENT, RABON A

2600 Communications

2618 Ex Parte Wee et al 10/153,095 NAPPI 112(1)/103(a) HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY EXAMINER PEREZ, ANGELICA

3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3632 Ex Parte Seymour et al 10/737,048 O’NEILL 102(b) William H. McNeill OSRAM SYLVANIA Inc. EXAMINER STERLING, AMY JO

3651
Ex Parte Stuffel et al 10/543,879 HORNER 102(b)/103(a) CARLSON GASKEY & OLDS
EXAMINER SINGH, KAVEL


AFFIRMED-IN-PART

3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3679 Ex Parte Bergdoll 10/835,715 PATE III 102(b) TUTUNJIAN & BITETTO, P.C. EXAMINER KENNEDY, JOSHUA T

First, it has long been held that an intermediate product or article can anticipate a claimed article even if the intermediate product is merely a stage in the final production of a non-anticipatory article. See In re Mullin, 481 F.2d 1333, 1335-36, (CCPA 1973) (an article that is intended and appreciated is no less anticipatory be it an intermediate structure rather than an end use item (citing In re Herbert, 461 F.2d 1390, 1394 (CCPA 1972)).

3685
Ex Parte Lee 10/619,296 CRAWFORD 103(a) SPRINT EXAMINER WINTER, JOHN M

REEXAMINATION

REHEARING DENIED


3900 Central Reexamination Unit (CRU)

2711 Ex parte ANTOR MEDIA CORPORATION 90/007,839; 90/007,936; 90/007,942; 90/007,957; and 90/009,261 5,734,961 SIU 102(a)/102(b)/103(a) Hershkovitz & Associates, LLC Counsel for Patent Owner: HERSHKOVITZ & ASSOCIATES, LLC Counsel for Third Parties: Alan L. Whitehurst Jones Day Thomas A. Rozylowics Fish & Richardson, PC EXAMINER FOSTER, ROLAND G original EXAMINER MILLER, JOHN W

See Halliburton Energy Servs., Inc. v. M-I LLC, 514 F.3d 1244, 1250 n.2 (Fed. Cir. 2008) (explaining that skeletal arguments and truffle hunts do not preserve an issue); Chicago Bd. of Educ. v. Substance, Inc., 354 F.3d 624, 629 (7th Cir. 2003) (incorporation into brief not a proper way to raise an issue).

EXAMINER AFFIRMED

3900 Central Reexamination Unit (CRU)
2617
Ex parte AVID IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS, INC. 90/008,702 5,499,017 SIU 102(b)/103(a) Patent Owner: J.D. Harriman II DLS Piper US LLP Third Party Requesters: Alexander C. Johnson Jr. Marger Johnson & McCollom PC original EXAMINER SWANN III, GLEN R

EXAMINER AFFIRMED


3900 Central Reexamination Unit (CRU)
1203 DORMAN PRODUCTS, INC. LLC Requestor, Appellant v. Patent of FEDERAL-MOGUL CORP. and FEDERAL-MOGUL WORLDWIDE, INC. Patent Owner, Respondent 95/000,429 7,306,235 MEDLEY 102(b)/103(a) DICKINSON WRIGHT PLLC Volpe and Koenig, P.C. Patent Owner: DICKINSON WRIGHT PLLCEXAMINER FETSUGA, ROBERT M original EXAMINER NOT, DEFINED

AFFIRMED

1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1617 Ex Parte Linton et al 11/824,005 MILLS 103(a) DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC EXAMINER SULLIVAN, DANIELLE D

1652 Ex Parte Gulevich et al 11/235,254 PRATS 112(2)/103(a) CERMAK NAKAJIMA LLP EXAMINER RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM

1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1764 Ex Parte Schultes et al 10/575,929 KRATZ 103(a)/obviousness-type double patenting OBLON, SPIVAK, MCCLELLAND MAIER & NEUSTADT, L.L.P. EXAMINER REDDY, KARUNA P

1783 Ex Parte Wellwood et al 10/927,942 FRANKLIN 103(a) EDWARD YOO C/O BENNETT JONES LLP EXAMINER O'HERN, BRENT T

1762 Ex Parte Cao et al 11/820,408 GRIMES 103(a) Univation Technologies LLC EXAMINER
LEE, RIP A

1722 Ex Parte Dieu et al 10/457,315 KRATZ 112(2)/102(e)/103(a) BAKER BOTTS L.L.P. EXAMINER CHACKO DAVIS, DABORAH

1796
Ex Parte KAWASHIMA et al 11/562,812 TIMM 103(a) SUGHRUE MION, PLLC EXAMINER LU, C CAIXIA

2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2161 Ex Parte Patterson et al 11/060,605 LUCAS 101/103(a) IBM CORP (YA) EXAMINER LE, HUNG D

2167 Ex Parte Gargi et al 10/427,572 LUCAS 103(a) HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY EXAMINER TIMBLIN, ROBERT M

2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2815 Ex Parte Nam et al 11/117,462 SAADAT 112(2)/102(e)/103(a) ROBERT E. BUSHNELL & LAW FIRM EXAMINER JACKSON JR, JEROME

3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3764 Ex Parte Hammons et al 10/262,036 ADAMS 103(a) 37 C.F.R. § 41.50(b) THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY EXAMINER ANDERSON, CATHARINE L

3736 Ex Parte Love et al 10/175,022 PATE III 103(a) GATES & COOPER LLP
EXAMINER FOREMAN, JONATHAN M

3784
Ex Parte Stempfle et al 10/788,569 BAHR 103(a) BSH HOME APPLIANCES CORPORATION EXAMINER JIANG, CHEN WEN

3761 Ex Parte Dodge et al 10/662,073 BAHR 112(1)/112(2)/102(b)/103(a)/obviousness-type double patenting KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC. EXAMINER ZALUKAEVA, TATYANA

REISSUE

EXAMINER AFFIRMED

1639 Ex Parte Prahl et al 11/454,180 LEBOVITZ 251/102(e)/103(a) GREENBERG TRAURIG (HOU) EXAMINER WESSENDORF, TERESA D

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