Ex parte Maeda is a 2009 decision of the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) that is listed among the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB) informative decisions. Ex parte Maeda is indicated by the PTAB to be informative as to “proof properties are not inherent.”
Ex parte Batteux is a 2007 decision of the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) that is listed among the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB) informative decisions. Ex parte Batteux is indicated by the PTAB to be informative as to “[a]nticipation – intended treatment.”
On March 20, 2020, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“Board”) issued a decision in Ex parte Ferreyro reversing, inter alia, an Examiner’s rejection of a claim directed to a device comprising an injection part “having a chamber loaded with viscous bone cement” over a prior art device containing no viscous bone cement. No. 2018-006313 (P.T.A.B. Mar. 20, 2020) (non-precedential).
