U.S. Patent No. 8,311,945 is directed to processing paper checks by digital capture of data at the point of purchase to promptly process a deposit with scanning and image capture at a different location and later matching the captured data to the captured image (pages 2-4). The PTAB had denied a 101 challenge in a […]

U.S. Patent No. 8,273,707 is directed to purifying proteins using HIC (pages 2-3). In prosecution, the applicants argued that combination and a particular combination of salts is not taught in the prior art (pages 4-5). A declaration discussing the particular combination as being beneficial was submitted during prosecution (page 5). Due to argument-based prosecution history […]

U.S. Patent No. 8,917,772 relates to encoding and decoding video and is essential to a standard (page 2). A working draft is the prior art and was allegedly available during a July 2011 meeting, on a website through four step navigation with the last step being selection of one document from a list of hundreds […]

U.S. Patent No. 8,611,404 is directed to sleep state in a multicarrier system (pages 2-3). “Without needing to reinitialize” was interpreted to provide for avoiding any one step of initialization, not just avoiding all steps (pages 9-10). The claim does not recite a previous or first initialization, so reinitialize was interpreted to be repeating the […]

U.S. Patent No. 8,611,404 is directed to sleep state in a multicarrier system (page 2). “Synchronization signal” appears only in the claims (page 4), and the specification describes a tone, referred to as a timing reference signal for synchronization (page 4). The specification also teaches frame synchronization (page 9). “Synchronization signal” was incorrectly interpreted to […]

U.S. Patent No. 8,008,018 and Application Serial No. 12/393,833 are directed to detecting a chromosomal abnormality in fetuses using random massively parallel sequencing (page 2). The specification teaches four steps focused on targeted sequences (pages 4-5). Two paragraphs relate to massively parallel sequencing (page 6). One paragraph mentions use of technology in a published patent […]

.S. Patent No. 8,690,233 is directed to vehicle load floors with sandwich-type composite panels with cellular cores (page 2). A reissue was filed to replace “thermoplastic” with “plastic” (pages 2-3). The specification only describes “thermoplastic,” yet a declaration indicated that other types of plastics are known for use in load floors and that the material […]