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Alice Mary. Kiely

2019002783 (P.T.A.B. May. 27, 2021)
Alice Mary. Kiely

11 Cited authorities

  1. KCJ Corp. v. Kinetic Concepts, Inc.

    223 F.3d 1351 (Fed. Cir. 2000)   Cited 222 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the article "a" would only be limited to its singular meaning when the inventor evinced a clear intent to so limit it

  2. Abbott Lab. v. Baxter Pharmaceutical

    334 F.3d 1274 (Fed. Cir. 2003)   Cited 94 times   6 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the customary usage of "effective amount" was an amount sufficient to achieve the claimed effect

  3. Lexington Luminance LLC v. Amazon.com Inc.

    601 F. App'x 963 (Fed. Cir. 2015)   Cited 12 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Finding "noerror in the district court's construction of 'micro-facet'"

  4. Application of Driscoll

    562 F.2d 1245 (C.C.P.A. 1977)   Cited 34 times
    Claiming as the invention just one of the fourteen possible alternative structures identified in the disclosure does not run afoul of § 112, ¶ 1

  5. In re Harnisch

    631 F.2d 716 (C.C.P.A. 1980)   Cited 5 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Containing an Appendix describing Patent Office practice

  6. Section 112 - Specification

    35 U.S.C. § 112   Cited 7,374 times   1046 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

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

    35 U.S.C. § 103   Cited 6,133 times   479 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."

  8. Section 102 - Conditions for patentability; novelty

    35 U.S.C. § 102   Cited 6,005 times   1001 Legal Analyses
    Prohibiting the grant of a patent to one who "did not himself invent the subject matter sought to be patented"

  9. 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"

  10. Section 41.52 - Rehearing

    37 C.F.R. § 41.52   Cited 7 times   9 Legal Analyses

    (a) (1) Appellant may file a single request for rehearing within two months of the date of the original decision of the Board. No request for rehearing from a decision on rehearing will be permitted, unless the rehearing decision so modified the original decision as to become, in effect, a new decision, and the Board states that a second request for rehearing would be permitted. The request for rehearing must state with particularity the points believed to have been misapprehended or overlooked by

  11. Section 1.42 - Applicant for patent

    37 C.F.R. § 1.42   1 Legal Analyses

    (a) The word "applicant" when used in this title refers to the inventor or all of the joint inventors, or to the person applying for a patent as provided in §§ 1.43 , 1.45 , or 1.46 . (b) If a person is applying for a patent as provided in § 1.46 , the word "applicant" refers to the assignee, the person to whom the inventor is under an obligation to assign the invention, or the person who otherwise shows sufficient proprietary interest in the matter, who is applying for a patent under § 1.46 and