{"id":845,"date":"2016-05-27T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=845"},"modified":"2016-05-29T12:07:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T16:07:45","slug":"applicant-cannot-bypass-the-ptab-to-get-to-federal-circuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=845","title":{"rendered":"Applicant Cannot Bypass the PTAB to get to Federal Circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In I<em>n re Arunachalam,<\/em> [2016-1560] (May 27, 2016), the Federal Circuit dismissed \u00a0Arunachalam direct appeal to the Federal Circuit from the final rejection of his claims in prosecution following a new ground of rejection entered by the PTAB.<\/p>\n<p>Under 28 U.S.C. \u00a7 1295(a)(4)(A), the Federal Circuit has exclusive jurisdiction over an appeal from a \u201cdecision\u201d of the Board.\u00a0 The Federal Circuit has held that \u00a7 1295(a)(4) should be read to incorporate a finality requirement.\u00a0 Thus the Federal Circuit concluded that it lacked jurisdiction to hear a non-final appeal from the Patent Office.\u00a0 Pursuant to \u00a7 134(b), Dr. Arunachalam may appeal the Examiner\u2019s decision to the Board, and only <em>after<\/em> the Board issues a final decision can the Federal Circuit exercise jurisdiction to review the Board\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In In re Arunachalam, [2016-1560] (May 27, 2016), the Federal Circuit dismissed \u00a0Arunachalam direct appeal to the Federal Circuit from the final rejection of his claims in prosecution following a new ground of rejection entered by the PTAB. Under 28 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=845\">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":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jurisdiction"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","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=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":846,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions\/846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}