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Thursday, July 8, 2021

leland






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Reversed 
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1644 Jean-Marie Saint-Remy 13989351 TOWNSEND 112(1) LEYDIG, VOIT & MAYER (WALNUT CREEK) DIBRINO, MARIANNE

1714 Robert Bondokov et al. 15427619 OWENS 102/103 MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS LLP (BO) SONG, MATTHEW J

1715 Applied Materials, Inc. 15615790 COLAIANNI 103 SERVILLA WHITNEY LLC/AMT CHEN, BRET P

1733 JFE STEEL CORPORATION 15543813 BEST 103 OLIFF PLC WU, JENNY R

1734 Canfield Scientific, Incorporated 15074304 WILSON 103 OLIFF PLC NGUYEN, NGOC YEN M

1793 Givaudan, S.A. 14699047 WILSON 103 CURATOLO SIDOTI CO., LPA TRAN, LIEN THUY

2136 SAP SE 15213754 HOFF 103 FISH & RICHARDSON, P.C. (SAP) TSAI, SHENG JEN

2154 ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY 14558375 McNEILL 103 41.50 101 BANNER & WITCOFF , LTD ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2421 DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC. 14259063 EVANS 103 41.50 101 DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC. c/o Patterson & Sheridan, LLP CASTRO, ALFONSO

2463 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 14313759 BENNETT 103 Docket Clerk - SEC BROCKMAN, ANGEL T

2465 Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ) 14547945 COURTENAY 103 COATS & BENNETT, PLLC WYLLIE, CHRISTOPHER T

2483 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY 15502798 HOMERE 103 Kolefas IP Law, LLC AN, SHAWN S

2488 KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. 14192905 CURCURI 103 PHILIPS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & STANDARDS DOBBS, KRISTIN SENSMEIER

2621 Facebook Technologies, LLC 15458832 MANTIS MERCADER 103 Facebook/Fenwick Silicon Valley Center FLORES, ROBERTO W

2625 Immersion Corporation 15377096 BENNETT  102/103 Immersion / Kilpatrick Townsend and Stockton EARLES, BRYAN E

2631 Luvozo PBC 15268228 EVANS 112(2)/103 Butzel Long BOLOURCHI, NADER

2667 Xerox Corporation 15089867 ARPIN 103 FAY SHARPE / XEROX - ROCHESTER YANG, WEI WEN

2667 PURAC BIOCHEM BV 15129431 BAUMEISTER 102/103 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY RAHMJOO, MANUCHEHR

2839 Lear Corporation 16174361 HOUSEL 103 BROOKS KUSHMAN P.C. / LEAR CORPORATION AHMAD, SHAHZEB K

2859 Intel Corporation 14757918 ROBERTSON 112(2)/103 Schiff Hardin LLP (Intel) c/o Laura C. Brutman Schiff Hardin LLP MCDANIEL, TYNESE V

2886 Rosemount Aerospace Inc. 15216398 HANLON 103 Kinney & Lange, P.A. AMARA, MOHAMED K

3654 ThyssenKrupp Elevator AG 14695280 STEPINA 103 FROST BROWN TODD LLC TRAN, DIEM M

3676 Volker Peters 14667026 WOODS 102/103 CANTOR COLBURN LLP-BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC PATEL, NEEL G

3697 Esurance Insurance Services, Inc. 15200765 LEBOVITZ 101 BANNER & WITCOFF , LTD DEGA, MURALI K

See In re Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University, 989 F.3d 1367, 1373 (Fed. Cir. 2021) (“We have also examined, consistent with our precedent, whether the claimed advance demonstrates an improvement on a technological process or merely enhances an ineligible concept.”).

3697 Hanon Systems 15190527 LEBOVITZ 101 BANNER & WITCOFF , LTD DEGA, MURALI K

3735 Kristy Safarik 13884644 PLENZLER 112(1)/112(2)/103 WM. WRIGLEY JR. COMPANY VAN BUSKIRK, JAMES M

3741 MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD. 15327442 STEPINA 103 WENDEROTH, LIND & PONACK, L.L.P. RODRIGUEZ, WILLIAM H

3746 Ateliers Busch SA 14382810 SONG 103 Pearne & Gordon LLP PLAKKOOTTAM, DOMINICK L

3763 Hanon Systems 15190527 BAHR 102/103 Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP ARANT, HARRY E

Affirmed-in-Part 
1618 CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY 14764488 TOWNSEND 103 103 TAROLLI, SUNDHEIM, COVELL & TUMMINO, LLP WESTERBERG, NISSA M

1792 General Mills, Inc. 15869778 HEANEY 103 103 DIEDERIKS & WHITELAW, PLC LACHICA, ERICSON M

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2461 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. 14569319 COURTENAY 103 103 OBLON, MCCLELLAND, MAIER & NEUSTADT, L.L.P. MIAN, OMER S

3762 Halla Visteon Climate Control Corp. 14721289 SONG 103 103 Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP MAY, ELIZABETH M

3783 CLEARSTREAM TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED et al. 14758617 CAPP 102/103 112(2) C. R. Bard, Inc./ClearStream/K&S KING & SCHICKLI, PLLC LEE, WENG WAH

Affirmed 
1618 ACTIGENOMICS SA 14785548 GRIMES 101 103/OTDP Harness Dickey (St. Louis) WESTERBERG, NISSA M

1644 Diamyd Medical AB 15315557 PRATS 103 EPA - BOZICEVIC FIELD & FRANCIS LLP BOZICEVIC, FIELD & FRANCIS EWOLDT, GERALD R

1653 G. Whiteman 12640861 ADAMS 112(1)/112(2)/OTDP Belvis Law XU, QING

1717 TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED 15346688 HOUSEL 112(2)/102/103 TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED PADGETT, MARIANNE L

1745 Zinus Inc. 15224459 WILSON 103 IMPERIUM PATENT WORKS SWANSON, ANDREW L

1787 PPG INDUSTRIES OHIO, INC. 15384633 HASTINGS 103/OTDP PPG Industries, Inc. IP Law Group ROBINSON, ELIZABETH A

1792 KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. 15035273 CASHION 112(1)/112(2)/103 PHILIPS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & STANDARDS BECKER, DREW E

1796 PPG INDUSTRIES OHIO, INC. 15662894 HASTINGS 103 PPG Industries, Inc. IP Law Group ROLLAND, ALEX A

2163 Adobe Inc. 15160938 CHUNG 102/103 FIG. 1 Patents VY, HUNG T

2164 Avaya Inc. 14600268 AMUNDSON 103 SHERIDAN ROSS P.C. MAHMOOD, REZWANUL

2194 SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION 14472505 SAADAT 103 SCHLUMBERGER INFORMATION SOLUTIONS YUN, CARINA

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2449 Motorola Mobility LLC 15611409 MANTIS MERCADER 103 FIG. 1 Patents MCBETH, WILLIAM C

2456 VMWARE, INC. 14316507 STRAUSS 103 Patterson + Sheridan, LLP - VMware CHACKO, JOE

2465 Microsoft Corporation 15046096 KUMAR 103 MICROSOFT CORPORATION HSU, ALPUS

2484 SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLCHAFT 14913392 BAUMEISTER 103 41.50 103 LERNER GREENBERG STEMER LLP MESA, JOSE M

2488 Kyu Hwang Cho 14332040 ENGLE 103 112(2) KYU HWANG CHO EDWARDS, TYLER B

2687 Robert Bosch GmbH 15519681 MANTIS MERCADER 102/103 Maginot, Moore & Beck LLP ALUNKAL, THOMAS D

2689 Tyco Integrated Security, LLC 15174209 SAADAT 103 HoustonHogle LLP Joseph Houston, HoustonHogle LLP MORTELL, JOHN F

2696 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. 15509799 CRAIG 103 HP Inc. CUTLER, ALBERT H

2834 Ford Global Technologies, LLC 15435777 GUPTA 112(1)/112(2) 102/103 BROOKS KUSHMAN P.C./FGTL KIM, JOHN K

2836 General Electric Company 15397485 GAUDETTE 102/103 The Small Patent Law Group, LLC AMRANY, ADI

2855 Infineon Technologies AG 14802066 SNAY 102/103 Infineon Technologies AG c/o Schiff Hardin LLP PLUMB, NIGEL H

3626 MCKESSON CORPORATION 14453397 LEBOVITZ 101 McKesson Corporation and Alston & Bird LLP c/o Alston & Bird LLP COLEMAN, CHARLES P.

3626 International Business Machines Corporation 15283893 FISCHETTI 101 Walder Intellectual Property Law PC RAPILLO, KRISTINE K

3665 L3 Technologies, Inc. 15719189 BROWN 103 DICKINSON WRIGHT PLLC - WASHINGTON, DC GORDON, MATHEW FRANKLIN

3681 HRL Laboratories, LLC 15231346 MOHANTY 101/103 TOPE-MCKAY & ASSOCIATES BAGGOT, BREFFNI

3681 GREE, INC. 14418239 COURTENAY 101 OBLON, MCCLELLAND, MAIER & NEUSTADT, L.L.P. BUSCH, CHRISTOPHER CONRAD

3683 ADP, LLC 14795243 CALVE 103 101 Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C. GARCIA-GUERRA, DARLENE

3686 International Business Machines Corporation 15166999 MOHANTY 103 101 FERENCE & ASSOCIATES LLC MONTICELLO, WILLIAM THOMAS

3723 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY 14342467 GUIJT 103 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY CARLSON, MARC

3753 L'Air Liquide, Société Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procédés Georges Claude 15711071 STEPINA 102/103 American Air Liquide Intellectual Property Department GARDNER, NICOLE

3753 UNITED STATES ENDOSCOPY GROUP, INC. 15616670 STEPINA 102/103 Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP BASTIANELLI, JOHN

3763 Excelerate Energy Limited Parnership 14454558 HILL 112(2) 103 Frederic Dorwart, Lawyers PLLC PETTITT, JOHN F

3794 Ethicon Endo-Surgery, LLC 15355892 MARTIN 103 Cilag GmbH International c/o Frost Brown Todd LLC FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE

CAO Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.) 15509729 HANLON 103 OBLON, MCCLELLAND, MAIER & NEUSTADT, L.L.P. MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE

Rehearing

Denied 
3626 Sumathi Paturu 10461603 FISCHETTI 101 SUMATHI PATURU, M.D. SEREBOFF, NEAL

3791 Kulangara Sivadas 12931101 BAHR 112(1)/101/103 Kulangara Sivadas BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN

Thursday, July 1, 2021

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Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1619 Abraham Palmer et al. 14774886 TOWNSEND 103 NORTON ROSE FULBRIGHT US LLP KASSA, TIGABU

1712 United Technologies Corporation 15111406 COLAIANNI 112(1)/102/103 41.50 103 Getz Balich LLC WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P

1792 CONAIR CORPORATION 13957838 COLAIANNI 103 Conair Corporation - Grogan, Tuccillo & Vanderleeden, LLP SMITH, PRESTON

2144 Microsoft Corporation 13894448 NAPPI 103 MICROSOFT CORPORATION GOLDEN, STEVE PETER

2177 Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC 14987511 HAGY 103 Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A. LEE, JUSTIN S

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2484 ARRIS Enterprises LLC 15690718 HOFF 103 BUCHANAN, INGERSOLL & ROONEY PC CommScope CHOWDHURY, NIGAR

2657 Facebook, Inc. 15694733 MACDONALD 103 Facebook/Fenwick Silicon Valley Center ROBERTS, SHAUN A

2464 NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY 15286304 COURTENAY 102/103 SQUIRE PB (Nokia) Nokia Technologies Oy NGUYEN, PHUONGCHAU BA

2672 Adobe Inc. 15219432 HOFF 103 Adobe / Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP NGUYEN, ANH-VINH THI

2689 Bosch Security Systems, Inc. et al. 15136232 McNEILL 103 Maginot, Moore & Beck LLP HUNNINGS, TRAVIS R

2835 SAGEMCOM BROADBAND SAS 15531305 SNAY 103 Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, P.C. PAPE, ZACHARY

2837 Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. 15472576 HOUSEL 103 ARENT FOX LLP - New York GORDON, BRYAN P

2846 STEERING SOLUTIONS IP HOLDING CORPORATION 15603885 SNAY 112(2) Dickinson Wright PLLC - Troy DUDA, RINA I

2861 Honeywell International Inc. 15457416 SMITH 102/103 HONEYWELL/FOGG Intellectual Property Services Group RAEVIS, ROBERT R

2875 Component Hardware Group, Inc. 16292994 OWENS 112(2)/102/103 CARELLA, BYRNE, CECCHI, OLSTEIN, BRODY & AGNELLO KRYUKOVA, ERIN

2883 Corning Cable Systems. LLC 13852825 INGLESE 103 CORNING INCORPORATED JORDAN, ANDREW

As Appellant argues (Appeal Br. 5), however, the Examiner’s reliance on Dulberg to establish the prima facie obviousness of such a modification is misplaced. At issue in Dulberg was whether a prior art disclosure of a cap pressfitted over the end of an assembly rendered obvious a manually removable cap in a similar assembly. In re Dulberg, 289 F.2d 522, 523 (CCPA1961). The court indicated that “[w]hether a cap is manually removable depends upon whether it is desired to gain ready access to the space covered by the cap. If it were considered desirable for any reason to obtain access to the end . . . it would be obvious to make the cap removable for that purpose.” Id. Unlike Dulberg, the Examiner’s proposed modification in the present case involves dividing Overton’s single water-swellable element/tape 14 into two distinct parts or pieces, rather than making two separate elements manually separable instead of press-fitted. Dulberg is thus factually distinct from the present case. In addition, the Examiner does not provide any reason in the Final Action for why one of ordinary skill in the art would have considered it desirable to divide Overton’s water-swellable element/tape 14 into two separate water-swellable element/tapes 14.

Dulberg, In re, 289 F.2d 522, 129 USPQ 348 (CCPA 1961) 2144.04

3659 James Downs et al. 15470118 SCHOPFER 103 BURRIS LAW, PLLC (AAM) LE, HUAN G

3699 MASTERCARD ASIA PACIFIC PTE LTD. 15050575 BAUMEISTER 103 MASTERCARD C/O Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney OBEID, MAMON A

3771 BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC. 15493736 KERINS 103 SEAGER, TUFTE & WICKHEM, LLP LAUER, CHRISTINA C

3783 Ioan Cosmescu 14028270 PRATS 112(1)/103 41.50 112(2) Zeman-Mullen & Ford, LLP GRAY, PHILLIP A

3792 Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. 15811492 GREENHUT 102/103 Kacvinsky Daisak Bluni PLLC MANUEL, GEORGE C

Affirmed-in-Part 
1792 Lyco Manufacturing Inc. 15213299 ROBERTSON 103 103 41.50 103 GEORGE R CORRIGAN CORRIGAN LAW OFFICE WILLIAMS, LELA

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2444 VMware, Inc. 15138102 KUMAR 103 103 41.50 103 Olympic Patent Works PLLC FIORILLO, JAMES N

3746 Parker-Hannifin Corporation 15481581 BAHR 102/103 102 41.50 112(2) DON W. BULSON (PARK) RENNER, OTTO, BOISSELLE & SKLAR, LLP LEE, GEOFFREY S

3715 Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC 15608777 STAICOVICI 103 101 MICROSOFT CORPORATION ZHANG, YINGCHUAN

Affirmed 
1631 Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. 15192708 ADAMS 101 MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP SKIBINSKY, ANNA

1662 Regents of the University of Minnesota 14629859 CHANG 103 FISH & RICHARDSON P.C. (TC) UYENO, STEPHEN G

1714 iRobot Corporation 15214871 DENNETT 103 Fish & Richardson PC (iROBOT) LEE, DOUGLAS

1771 Innospec Limited 15980151 WILSON 103 BURNS & LEVINSON, LLP HINES, LATOSHA D

1796 Jasen Webb 15214110 WOOD 103 112(1)/112(2) LEE & HAYES, P.C. HARMON, CHRISTOPHER R

2128 TT GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS, INC. 13767777 SHAW 103 HESLIN ROTHENBERG FARLEY & MESITI PC ALHIJA, SAIF A

2139 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. 15061873 CHUNG 103 Innovation Counsel LLP KNIGHT, PAUL M

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2437 SAFE-T DATA A.R. LTD. 14596461 AMUNDSON 101/103 M&B IP Analysts, LLC WADE-WRIGHT, SHAQUEAL D

2483 AVIGILON FORTRESS CORPORATION 14959571 THOMAS 103 MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC. SHAHNAMI, AMIR

2486 HUF HÜLSBECK & FÜRST GMBH & CO. KG 14760921 DIXON 103 QUARLES & BRADY LLP BILLAH, MASUM

2616 INNOVID INC. 15607508 CUTITTA 103/OTDP Koffsky Schwalb LLC BEUTEL, WILLIAM A

2626 EGALAX_EMPIA TECHNOLOGY INC. 15379821 HOMERE 102/103 WPAT, PC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ATTORNEYS LIN, HANG

2657 Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. 15412920 MANTIS MERCADER 103 PERKINS COIE LLP - PAO General KAZEMINEZHAD, FARZAD

2663 ACCURAY INCORPORATED 14991759 KOHUT 112(6) 103 WOMBLE BOND DICKINSON (US) LLP / Accuray, Inc. BALI, VIKKRAM

2853 Waters Technologies Corporation 15909258 PRAISS 103 WOMBLE BOND DICKINSON (US) LLP / Waters OLAMIT, JUSTIN N

2861 COVAR APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 15095562 REN 103 HUNTON ANDREWS KURTH/Houston ZHONG, XIN Y

2865 CGG SERVICES SA 15110325 OWENS 112(1)/112(2)/103 112(1) Patent Portfolio Builders, PLLC QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT

3631 R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY 15455249 WOOD 103 WOMBLE BOND DICKINSON (US) LLP SILBERMANN, JOANNE

3642 Stephen Shoemaker 16269475 CAPP 103 FULWIDER PATTON LLP RODRIGUEZ, VICENTE M

3693 Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc. 14618067 SHIANG 101/OTDP IP GROUP OF DLA PIPER LLP (US) LEMIEUX, JESSICA

3722 Citizen Watch Co., Ltd. et al. 15512989 WOOD 112(1)/112(2) HOWSON & HOWSON LLP VITALE, MICHAEL J

3783 Sandra Keh et al. 12979411 OSINSKI 103 Wiley Patent Administration VU, QUYNH-NHU HOANG

Rehearing

Denied 
Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2455 Avaya Inc. 14670296 CASS 103 SHERIDAN ROSS P.C. CHANG, JULIAN
3676 Chad Williams 15902768 GUIJT 102/103 CANTOR COLBURN LLP-BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC PATEL, NEEL G