Legal Opinion
In Re Jerre M. Freeman
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided July 12, 1994No. 93-1449PublishedCited by 148 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RICH, Circuit Judge.
Dr. Jerre M. Freeman appeals from the March 22, 1993 decision of the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (Board) of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) sustaining the Examiner’s rejection of claims 10-21 of Reexamination No. 90/001,235 (the ’235 application) 1 under 35 U.S.C. § 305 as impermissibly broadening the scope of the claims in a reexamination proceeding. 2 We affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
A. The Invention
Claims 10-21 of the ’235 application are directed to an intraocular lens device (IOL) implanted into a human eye after the eye’s natural lens affected…
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