Legal Opinion
In Re Clement
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided February 18, 1998No. 97-1202PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MAYER, Circuit Judge.
Jean-Marie Clement appeals the decision of the United States Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences sustaining the rejection of claims 1-18 and 49-52 in reissue application Serial No. 08/054,951 under 35 U.S.C. § 251 (1994). Because the board correctly applied the recapture rule to bar claims 49-52 and because claims 1-18 alone cannot support the reissue application, we affirm in part and vacate in part.
Background
This ease is about U.S. Patent No. 4,780,-179 (the ’179 patent) issued to Jean-Marie Clement. The 179 patent claims a method for treating waste paper that…
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