... professor and registered professional engineer who has “extensive personal and professional experience with farming and seed planting equipment,” and that the three instances in which his testimony was excluded were personal injury ...
Additionally, “[a] person of ordinary skill is also a person of ordinary creativity, not an automaton.” KSR, 550 U.S. at 421. Petitioner asserts that a person of ordinary skill in the art “would have had either: (1) a bachelor’s degree plus four ...
According to Patent Owner, a person of ordinary skill in the art would have had an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering, agricultural engineering, or closely related field, and “about two years of experience designing agricultural products or related ...
8 8 Petitioner provides separate reasons in support of combining Benac and Hedderwick, arguing that both references “disclose vacuum seed meters that adhere individual seeds on apertures of a seed metering disk,” and that a person of ordinary skill would have been motivated to apply Benac’s “paddle wheel that transfers seeds from the seed metering disk, ensuring their reliable release and improving seed spacing accuracy” to Hedderwick. Pet. 26–27; see ...
Thus, Petitioner reasons that an ordinarily skilled artisan would have been motivated to rely on Koning’s brush belt with bristles in place of Hedderwick’s endless belt with fins to “achieve the disclosed benefits of more uniform seed spacing.” Pet. 54–55 (citing Ex. 1002 ¶ 111); see also id. at 29 (asserting that a person of ordinary skill “desiring finer seed spacing would have been motivated to combine the teachings of Koning’s brush belt with the system of Hedderwick to achieve 30 IPR2019-01054 Patent 10,004,173 B2 finer seed control) ...
Petitioner provides insufficient persuasive evidence that a person of ordinary skill in the art would have had reason to use the brush belt of Koning in an undisclosed manner to receive seed into brush hairs 45 from Hedderwick’s seed meter disc located above the bristles, rather than to use brush ...
A [person of ordinary skill in the art] would not predict that Koning’s brush-belt could be used successfully for that purpose because, inter alia, a [person of ordinary skill in the art] would not predict that Koning’s belt would successfully ...
... [person of ordinary skill in the art] would use a brush belt for carrying seeds rather than covering them is the ’173 Patent. Id. ¶ 147. In its Reply, Petitioner argues that “brush belts were well-known and used in many aspects of planting so a [ ...