{"id":2091,"date":"2010-03-16T22:43:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T04:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=2091"},"modified":"2010-03-16T22:43:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T04:43:46","slug":"may-an-examiner-search-under-any-tree-and-under-any-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=2091","title":{"rendered":"May an examiner search under any tree and under any rock?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent case of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">In re Thorpe<\/span>, 2010-1021 (Fed. Cir. March 8, 2010)\u00a0concerned the issue of whether the cited references in a 103 rejection\u00a0were\u00a0non-analogous art.\u00a0 Judge Gajarsa took the opportunity at oral argument to ask the associate solicitor arguing on behalf of the PTO how broad an examiner&#8217;s search field may be.\u00a0 May the examiner search under any tree and under any rock or are there limits?\u00a0\u00a0 Judge Gajarsa also asked whether\u00a0the search field is\u00a0limited\u00a0to\u00a0the\u00a0art that one of\u00a0ordinary skill in the art would deem appropriate to search.\u00a0 The\u00a0PTO agreed that the art that\u00a0one of ordinary skill in the art would\u00a0look to would limit the field of search in\u00a0an obviousness determination.\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/2010-1021-excerpt-1.mp3\">Listen<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the entire oral argument here: [<a href=\"http:\/\/oralarguments.cafc.uscourts.gov\/mp3\/2010-1021.mp3\">Listen<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent case of In re Thorpe, 2010-1021 (Fed. Cir. March 8, 2010)\u00a0concerned the issue of whether the cited references in a 103 rejection\u00a0were\u00a0non-analogous art.\u00a0 Judge Gajarsa took the opportunity at oral argument to ask the associate solicitor arguing on behalf of the PTO how broad an examiner&#8217;s search field may be.\u00a0 May the examiner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2091"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2097,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions\/2097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}