I  did catch that it confirms what I suggested my friend-- "... end up in a court of appeals..."

thereby confirming that a B.S. degree in computer engineering and a job with the govt in the US patent office should not mean you necessarily wield the power to dictate billions of dollars of industry commerce....

nor, and relevant to the MMP case, that you can undo what a previous patent examiner found 20 years later. 

long PTSC, and avering up.