Legal Opinion
In Re Kozaburo Harita, Kukiyoshi Ajisawa, Kinji Iizuke, Yukihiko Kinoshita, Tetsuhide Kamijo, and Michihiro Kobayashi
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided May 24, 1988No. 87-1273PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RICH, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is from the decision of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (board), 1 USPQ2d 1887, affirming the final rejection by the Special Program Examiner of claims 8-10 of Harita et al. application for reissue, serial No. 802,486, filed June 1, 1977. We reverse.
This reissue application, filed pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 251, has as its primary purpose the correction of error in applicants’ issued patent No. 3,940,422 (’422 patent) granted February 24, 1976, in that the patent contains claims which read on prior art…
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