Legal Opinion

In Re Leslie N. Wilder, James C. Whitney and Gary G. Matison, and Lanier Business Products, Intervenor

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Decided June 20, 1984No. Appeal 83-1360PublishedCited by 52 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BALDWIN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a decision of the United States Patent and Trademark Office Board of Appeals (board) rejecting claims 1-16 of appellant’s Reissue Application Serial No. 079,171. Claims 1-16 were rejected for appellants’ failure to sufficiently allege error required by 35 U.S.C. § 251 and for failure of appellants’ oath to meet the requirements of 37 CFR 1.175(a)(5). Claims 14-16 were also rejected as being drawn to subject matter not disclosed in the original patent, U.S. Patent No. 4,051,-540. We reverse the board’s rejection of claims 1-16 for failure properly to…

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