Case Name: In re John Nicholas GROSS
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2014-03-27
Citations: 559 F. App'x 1030
Docket Number: No. 2014-1073
Parties: In re John Nicholas GROSS.
Judges: Before PROST, O’MALLEY, and TARANTO, Circuit Judges. TARANTO, Circuit Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 559
Pages: 1030–1031

Head Matter:
In re John Nicholas GROSS.
No. 2014-1073.
United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.
March 27, 2014.
John Nicholas Gross, Berkeley, CA, pro se.
Nathan K. Kelley, Solicitor, Joseph Gerard Piccolo, Associate Solicitor, United States Patent And Trademark Office Office of The Solicitor, Jeremiah Helm, Patent and Trademark Office Law Office, Alexandria, VA, for Appellee.
Before PROST, O’MALLEY, and TARANTO, Circuit Judges. TARANTO, Circuit Judge.

Opinion:
ON MOTION
ORDER
The parties jointly move to remand this appeal for further proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
A Board decision sustained the examiner's rejection of various claims of John N. Gross's patent application as obvious over a combination of prior art references. After the Board's decision, Gross requested a rehearing arguing that the Board's decision constituted a new ground of rejection. The Board disagreed and denied the rehearing. Gross timely appealed to this court.
The parties state that Gross now intends to raise the new ground of rejection issue on appeal. Because this court agrees with the parties that it would be best for all involved to remand this case to the Board for reconsideration of Gross's new ground of rejection argument in light of Rambus Inc. v. Rea, 731 F.3d 1248 (Fed.Cir.2013), the parties' joint motion to remand the case for additional proceedings is granted.
Accordingly, It Is Ordered That:
(1) The motion is granted. The Board's decision is vacated and the case is remand ed for additional proceedings consistent with this order.
(2) Each side shall bear its own costs.