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Ex Parte Lonergan

12828601 (P.T.A.B. Jan. 30, 2018)
Ex Parte Lonergan

5 Cited authorities

  1. DeSilva v. DiLeonardi

    181 F.3d 865 (7th Cir. 1999)   Cited 193 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Refusing to consider arguments that were adopted by reference but not actually made in appellate briefs because "adoption by reference amounts to a self-help increase in the length of the appellate brief"

  2. In re Packard

    751 F.3d 1307 (Fed. Cir. 2014)   Cited 37 times   11 Legal Analyses
    Addressing the issues separately

  3. Application of Noznick

    391 F.2d 946 (C.C.P.A. 1968)   Cited 2 times

    Patent Appeal No. 7901. April 11, 1968. Alvin Guttag, Cushman, Darby Cushman, Washington, D.C., for appellants. Joseph Schimmel, Washington, D.C., (Fred W. Sherling, Washington, D.C., of counsel) for the Commissioner of Patents. Before WORLEY, Chief Judge, and RICH, SMITH, ALMOND and KIRKPATRICK, Judges. Senior District Judge, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, sitting by designation. ALMOND, Judge. This is an appeal from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals affirming the rejection of

  4. Section 103 - Conditions for patentability; non-obvious subject matter

    35 U.S.C. § 103   Cited 6,144 times   481 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 1.136 - [Effective until 1/19/2025] Extensions of time

    37 C.F.R. § 1.136   Cited 17 times   30 Legal Analyses

    (a) (1) If an applicant is required to reply within a nonstatutory or shortened statutory time period, applicant may extend the time period for reply up to the earlier of the expiration of any maximum period set by statute or five months after the time period set for reply, if a petition for an extension of time and the fee set in § 1.17(a) are filed, unless: (i) Applicant is notified otherwise in an Office action; (ii) The reply is a reply brief submitted pursuant to § 41.41 of this title; (iii)