In Re: Hodges
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Opinion concurring-in-part and dissenting-in-part filed by Circuit Judge WALLACH .
1Opinion of the Court
O'Malley, Circuit Judge.
Appellant Kenneth Andrew Hodges appeals from examination of U.S. Patent Application No. 12/906,222 ("'222 application"), in which the Patent Trial and Appeal Board ("Board") affirmed the examiner's rejection of all claims as anticipated and/or obvious. See Ex Parte Kenneth Andrew Hodges , No. 2014-009710, 2016 WL 6441834 (P.T.A.B. Oct. 28, 2016). For the following reasons, we reverse the Board's anticipation determinations, vacate its obviousness determinations, and remand for further proceedings.
I. BACKGROUND
A. The '222 Application
Entitled "System and Method for…
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