Tag Archives: PTAB

Ex Parte Smith: What We’ve Got Here Is A Failure To Communicate!

Posted on May 29, 2018 by Warren Woessner

In Ex parte Smith, Appeal No. 2016-007565 (PTAB, May 16, 2016), the Board reversed the examiner’s s.101 and 103 rejections of a claim to a modified flavivirus envelop (E) protein comprising a mutated envelop protein, where the unmodified E-To domain … Continue reading →

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Ex parte Galloway – Two Correlations are Better than One

Posted on May 25, 2018 by Warren Woessner

Although, somehow, examiners and PTAB Judges are supposed to refrain from considering anticipation or obviousness when evaluating claim elements for the “inventive step” required for patent eligibility, that’s just not possible. The claims in Ex parte Galloway were directed to … Continue reading →

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PTO Proposes to Change Claim Construction Standard Used by PTAB

Posted on May 8, 2018 by Warren Woessner

On May 9th, the USPTO released a short “Notice of proposed rulemaking” entitled “Changes to the Claim Construction Standard for Interpreting Claims in Trial Proceedings Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.”  In brief the Notice proposes to replace the broadest … Continue reading →

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Ex Parte Buck: Can a Composition Claim be a Natural Phenomenon?

Posted on May 3, 2018 by Warren Woessner

In a recent decision, Ex Parte Buck, Appeal no. 2017-005470 (PTAB, April 20, 2018), the Board affirmed the examiner’s ruling that a composition claim reciting two natural products was patent-ineligible as an attempt to claim a natural phenomenon: 7. A … Continue reading →

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