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Ex Parte ZAWOROTKO et al

14533255 (P.T.A.B. Jan. 17, 2019)
Ex Parte ZAWOROTKO et al

8 Cited authorities

  1. Atofina v. Great Lakes Chemical Corp.

    441 F.3d 991 (Fed. Cir. 2006)   Cited 85 times   8 Legal Analyses
    Finding 0.001 to 1.0 percent range did not disclose a D.I to 5.0 percent range

  2. Kennametal, Inc. v. Ingersoll Cutting Tool Co.

    780 F.3d 1376 (Fed. Cir. 2015)   Cited 55 times   8 Legal Analyses
    Affirming anticipation determination where a person of skill in the art would "at once envisage the claimed arrangement or combination"

  3. Nidec Motor Corp. v. Zhongshan Broad Ocean Motor Co.

    851 F.3d 1270 (Fed. Cir. 2017)   Cited 10 times   6 Legal Analyses
    Holding that precedent "does not permit the Board to fill in missing limitations simply because a skilled artisan would immediately envision them."

  4. Application of Petering

    301 F.2d 676 (C.C.P.A. 1962)   Cited 76 times   7 Legal Analyses
    Holding in a case involving twenty compounds that a general chemical formula will anticipate a claimed species covered by the formula when the species can be `at once envisaged' from the formula

  5. Application of Schaumann

    572 F.2d 312 (C.C.P.A. 1978)   Cited 27 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Concluding that the prior art patent provides a description of a set of 7 chemical compositions resulting in HEP “just as surely as if they were identified in the reference by name,” where “claim 1 of the [prior art] patent, read in conjunction with the signification given the expression ‘alkyl radical’ in the specification, embrace[d] a very limited number of compounds closely related to one another in structure”

  6. Section 102 - Conditions for patentability; novelty

    35 U.S.C. § 102   Cited 5,996 times   1001 Legal Analyses
    Prohibiting the grant of a patent to one who "did not himself invent the subject matter sought to be patented"

  7. Section 6 - Patent Trial and Appeal Board

    35 U.S.C. § 6   Cited 186 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"

  8. 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