{"id":1399,"date":"2017-02-13T15:16:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T20:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2017-02-13T15:16:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T20:16:30","slug":"the-removal-of-matter-from-the-provisional-application-is-significant-to-the-interpretation-of-the-claims-in-the-non-provisional-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1399","title":{"rendered":"The Removal of Matter from the Provisional Application is Significant to the Interpretation of the Claims in the Non-Provisional Application"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>MPHJ Technology Investments, LLC. v. Ricoh Americas Corp.<\/em>, [2016-1243] (February 13, 2016), the Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB decision that claims 1-8 of\u00a0U.S. Patent No. 8,488,173\u00a0were<br \/>\ninvalid on the grounds of anticipation or obviousness.<\/p>\n<p>On appeal MPHJ argued that &#8220;interfacing&#8221; and &#8220;Go button&#8221; were single step operations, and that the PTAB erred in construing these claim elements as not limited to single-step operations. MPHJ was relying upon portions of its prior provisional application, which Ricoh pointed out were omitted from\u00a0the final regualr utility application. MPHJ responded that these omitted\u00a0sections were not explicitly disclaimed, and therefore that\u00a0they are part of the prosecution history and are properly\u00a0relied on to explain and limit the claims, even if the\u00a0passages do not appear in the issued patent.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Circuit agreed that\u00a0a provisional application can contribute\u00a0to understanding the claims, but found that\u00a0it was the <em>deletion<\/em> from the provisional application\u00a0that contributes understanding of the intended scope\u00a0of the final application. \u00a0The Federal Circuit concluded that a person of skill in this field would<br \/>\ndeem the removal of these limiting clauses to be significant. \u00a0The Federal Circuit noted that the\u00a0\u2019173 Patent in its final form contains no statement\u00a0or suggestion of an intent to limit the claims to the<br \/>\ndeleted one-step operation. Neither the specification nor<br \/>\nthe claims state that this limited scope is the only intended<br \/>\nscope. Instead, the \u2019173 Patent describes the single step<br \/>\noperation as \u201coptional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Based upon this construction, the Federal Circuit affirmed that the claims were anticipated or obvious over the prior art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In MPHJ Technology Investments, LLC. v. Ricoh Americas Corp., [2016-1243] (February 13, 2016), the Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB decision that claims 1-8 of\u00a0U.S. Patent No. 8,488,173\u00a0were invalid on the grounds of anticipation or obviousness. On appeal MPHJ argued that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1399\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-claim-constructino"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1400,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions\/1400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}