REVERSED
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3618 Ex Parte BENSON et al 11383002 - (D) BAHR 103 MATTHEW R. JENKINS, ESQ. RESTIFO, JEFFREY J
3655 Ex Parte Kimes et al 12575529 - (D) ASTORINO 103 MACMILLAN, SOBANSKI & TODD, LLC HOLMES, JUSTIN
3665 Ex Parte Logan et al 11851219 - (D) BROWNE 103 MILLER IP GROUP, PLC GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION ALGAHAIM, HELAL A
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3772 Ex Parte Lloyd 11657344 - (D) PLENZLER 103 Wright, Lindsey & Jennings LLP HICKS, VICTORIA J
“Establishing long-felt need requires objective evidence that an art-recognized problem existed in the art for a long period of time without solution.” Ex Parte Jellá, 90 USPQ2d 1009, 1019 (BPAI 2008) (precedential). The Examiner does not indicate that Appellant has failed to present such evidence. Instead, the Examiner appears to require proof of failure of others to establish long-felt need. While long-felt need and failure of others are closely related, we are unaware of any authority for the Examiner’s proposition that failure of others is required to establish longfelt need. Therefore, we agree with Appellant that the Examiner has improperly required proof of failure of others to establish long-felt need.
3781 Ex Parte Bellerose et al 11103875 - (D) CALVE 103 TAYLOR IP, P.C. MCKINLEY, CHRISTOPHER BRIAN
AFFIRMED-IN-PART
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3637 Ex Parte Keller et al 11918600 - (D) BAHR 102/103 102/103 BSH HOME APPLIANCES CORPORATION ROHRHOFF, DANIEL J
AFFIRMED
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2669 Ex Parte Ali 11211402 - (D) BENOIT 103 KACVINSKY DAISAK PLLC C/O CPA Global PATEL, JAYESH A
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3685 Ex Parte Tadayon et al 11711735 - (D) FETTING 103 Reed Smith LLP SHERR, CRISTINA O
3685 Ex Parte Samayamantry et al 10951355 - (D) FETTING 103 SIEMENS CORPORATION AGWUMEZIE, CHARLES C
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3743 Ex Parte Kelley et al 11189883 - (D) BROWNE 103 Whirlpool Patens Company- MD 0750 PEREIRO, JORGE ANDRES
3744 Ex Parte Kang et al 11017431 - (D) HORNER 102/103 CARLSON, GASKEY & OLDS, P.C. PETTITT, JOHN F
“[P]roof of actual reduction to practice requires a showing that ‘the embodiment relied upon as evidence of priority actually worked for its intended purpose.’” DSL Dynamic Sciences Ltd. v. Union Switch & Signal, Inc., 928 F.2d 1122, 1125 (Fed. Cir. 1991), quoting Newkirk v. Lulejian, 825 F.2d 1581, 1582 (Fed. Cir. 1987). “On the other hand, tests performed outside the intended environment can be sufficient to show reduction to practice if the testing conditions are sufficiently similar to those of the intended environment.” Id. at 1125.
DSL Dynamic Sciences, Ltd. v. Union Switch & Signal, Inc., 928 F.2d 1122, 18 USPQ2d 1152 (Fed. Cir. 1991) 2138.05
Newkirk v. Lulejian, 825 F.2d 1581, 3 USPQ2d 1793 (Fed. Cir. 1987) 715.07
REHEARING
DENIED
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3689 Ex Parte Watkins et al 10601466 - (R) PETRAVICK 103 General Motors Corporation c/o REISING ETHINGTON P.C. FISHER, PAUL R
REEXAMINATION
AFFIRMED
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1764 UOP LLC Requester and Respondent v. EXXONMOBIL CHEMICAL PATENTS, INC. Patent Owner and Appellant 95001387 6870072 FITZPATRICK 314(a)/112(2)/102/103 EXXONMOBIL CHEMICAL COMPANY DIAMOND, ALAN D original GRIFFIN, WALTER DEAN
FEDERAL CIRCUIT
REVERSED
3101 POWERSCREEN INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION, LIMITED (now known as Terex GB Limited), POWERSCREEN NEW YORK, INC. AND EMERALD EQUIPMENT SYSTEMS, INC., Defendants-Appellants, AND TEREX CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellant. 2011-1572, 2012-1168, -1169 5,577,618 08/301,578 DYK 103 Cozen O’Connor; Merchant & Gould, PC; Bryan Cave, LLP original JACOBSON, PRICE, HOLMAN & STERN KELLY, TAMARA
