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Ex Parte Turner

11295144 (P.T.A.B. Mar. 29, 2013)
Ex Parte Turner

8 Cited authorities

  1. In re Ngai

    367 F.3d 1336 (Fed. Cir. 2004)   Cited 15 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Noting that allowing claims where the printed matter was the only novel contribution would allow "anyone [to] continue patenting a product indefinitely provided that they add a new instruction sheet to the product"

  2. In re Gulack

    703 F.2d 1381 (Fed. Cir. 1983)   Cited 31 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that even though the claim included printed matter, the printed matter was still entitled to patentable weight because there was a functional relationship between the printed matter and its underlying substrate

  3. In re Seid

    161 F.2d 229 (C.C.P.A. 1947)   Cited 13 times

    Patent Appeal No. 5283. April 22, 1947. Appeal from Board of Patent Appeals, Serial No. 373,565. Proceeding in the matter of the application of Frederick Seid for a patent relating to an advertising display device. From a decision of the Board of Appeals affirming a decision of the Primary Examiner rejecting claims of application, applicant appeals. Decision affirmed. Charles R. Allen, of Washington, D.C., William G. MacKay and William S. Graham, both of San Francisco, Cal., for appellant. W.W. Cochran

  4. In re Johnson

    162 F.2d 924 (C.C.P.A. 1947)   Cited 2 times

    Patent Appeal No. 5312. June 17, 1947. Appeal from Board of Patent Appeals, Serial No. 507,134. Proceeding in the matter of the application of Lambert D. Johnson and others for the reissue of a patent. From a decision of the Board of Patent Appeals affirming the action of the Primary Examiner in rejecting all the claims in the application, the applicants appeal. Affirmed. Chritton, Wiles, Davies, Schroeder Merriam, of Chicago, Ill. (Nelson J. Jewett, of Washington, D.C., and Jules L. Brady, of Chicago

  5. 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."

  6. 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"

  7. 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

  8. Section 1.136 - 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)