Legal Opinion
In Re Sarah C. Watkinson
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided March 30, 1990No. 89-1537PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BALDWIN, Senior Circuit Judge.
Sarah C. Watkinson (Watkinson) appeals the decision of the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (board), of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), Appeal No. 88-3520, affirming the decision of the examiner rejecting all the claims in reissue application serial no. 06/817,286 for U.S. Patent No. 4,481,219 (’219), under 35 U.S.C. § 251 (1982), as lacking a statutory basis for reissue. We affirm.
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BACKGROUND
Watkinson’s original application, serial no. 06/395,928, filed July 7, 1982, was directed to compositions for and methods of inhibiting the…
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