Ex Parte Schindler

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Nov 28, 2016

13923630 (P.T.A.B. Nov. 28, 2016)

United States Patent and Trademark Office UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE United States Patent and Trademark Office Address: COMMISSIONER FOR PATENTS P.O.Box 1450 Alexandria, Virginia 22313-1450 www.uspto.gov APPLICATION NO. FILING DATE FIRST NAMED INVENTOR ATTORNEY DOCKET NO. CONFIRMATION NO. 13/923,630 06/21/2013 Sigram SCHINDLER 070285.000014 5620 20230 7590 11/30/2016 Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP 1909 K St., NW 9th Floor WASHINGTON, DC 20006-1152 EXAMINER SMITH, PAULINHO E ART UNIT PAPER NUMBER 2129 NOTIFICATION DATE DELIVERY MODE 11/30/2016 ELECTRONIC Please find below and/or attached an Office communication concerning this application or proceeding. The time period for reply, if any, is set in the attached communication. Notice of the Office communication was sent electronically on above-indicated "Notification Date" to the following e-mail address(es): patlaw @ vorys. com PTOL-90A (Rev. 04/07) UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD Ex parte SIGRAM SCHINDLER Appeal 2016-002734 Application 13/923,630 Technology Center 2100 Before ROBERT E. NAPPI, CATHERINE SHIANG, and ALEX S. YAP, Administrative Patent Judges. YAP, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL Appellant1 appeals under 35 U.S.C. § 134(a) from the Examiner’s final rejection of claims 1-30, which are all the claims pending in this application. We have jurisdiction under 35 U.S.C. § 6(b). We affirm. 1 According to Appellant, the real party in interest is Sigram Schindler Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH. (App. Br. 1.) Appeal 2016-002734 Application 13/923,630 STATEMENT OF THE CASE Introduction Appellant’s invention relates to a system and method that “automatically prompt[s a] user through exploratively checking [whether it is] meeting the requirements stated” in 35 U.S.C. §§ 101, 102, 103, and 112. (June 21, 2013 Specification (“Spec.”), Abstract.) Claim 1 is illustrative, and is reproduced (with minor formatting changes) below: 1. A computer-implemented method for updating a given data structure PTRCT-DS in a BAD-KR, both in given formats, by a set of Binary Elementary Disclosed (“BED”) inventive concepts of PTR’s TT.0, called BED-TT.0, input to it by the user and by appendices to the BED-TT.0 and to BAD-KR for controlling an Innovation Expert System IES - the method (performing, for a claimed invention of PTR, its refined claim construction by first disaggregating its compound inventive concepts, if these are not yet elementary) using a memory for storing the so updated PTRCT -DS, generated by executing this method on TT.O’s compound inventive concepts BAD-X.O.n of TT.0 representing their mirror predicates BAD-X.O.n of its X.O.n, l