Ex Parte Eggers et al

7 Cited authorities

  1. ACTV, Inc. v. Walt Disney Co.

    346 F.3d 1082 (Fed. Cir. 2003)   Cited 213 times
    Rejecting construction of the term "Internet address" as meaning "a particular host on the Internet, specified by a uniformresource locator that is unique to that host" because the district court construed "uniform resource locator" to mean "the complete address of a site on the Internet specifying both a protocol type and a resource location"
  2. Hockerson-Halberstadt v. Converse Inc.

    183 F.3d 1369 (Fed. Cir. 1999)   Cited 55 times
    Holding that "[w]hether amendments made during reexamination enlarge the scope of a claim is a matter of claim construction" which is "a matter of law"
  3. Section 112 - Specification

    35 U.S.C. § 112   Cited 7,278 times   1023 Legal Analyses
    Requiring patent applications to include a "specification" that provides, among other information, a written description of the invention and of the manner and process of making and using it
  4. Section 103 - Conditions for patentability; non-obvious subject matter

    35 U.S.C. § 103   Cited 6,056 times   447 Legal Analyses
    Holding the party seeking invalidity must prove "the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains."
  5. Section 102 - Conditions for patentability; novelty

    35 U.S.C. § 102   Cited 5,938 times   944 Legal Analyses
    Prohibiting the grant of a patent to one who "did not himself invent the subject matter sought to be patented"
  6. Section 6 - Patent Trial and Appeal Board

    35 U.S.C. § 6   Cited 182 times   63 Legal Analyses
    Giving the Director authority to designate "at least 3 members of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board" to review "[e]ach appeal, derivation proceeding, post-grant review, and inter partes review"
  7. Section 134 - Appeal to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board

    35 U.S.C. § 134   Cited 98 times   30 Legal Analyses

    (a) PATENT APPLICANT.-An applicant for a patent, any of whose claims has been twice rejected, may appeal from the decision of the primary examiner to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, having once paid the fee for such appeal. (b) PATENT OWNER.-A patent owner in a reexamination may appeal from the final rejection of any claim by the primary examiner to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, having once paid the fee for such appeal. 35 U.S.C. § 134 July 19, 1952, ch. 950, 66 Stat. 801; Pub. L. 98-622