Appeal No. 2001-0323 Page 4
Application No. 09/159,360
June 5, 1995 under 37 CFR § 1.60 as a divisional application
of Application No. 08/342,533 (the parent application). This
application contained claims 1 to 13 directed to a printed
circuit board and claims 14 to 16 drawn to a method of
preparing a printed circuit board identical to the claims
originally filed in the parent application.
7. The filing of this divisional application was accompanied
by an amendment canceling claims 1 to 15 (Paper No. 2).
8. On February 7, 1996, method claim 16, identical to method
claim 16 allowed in the parent application, was allowed by the
examiner (Paper No. 3).
9. On September 24, 1996, U.S. Patent No. 5,557,844 issued
with claim 16 renumbered as claim 1.
Application No. 09/159,360
10. Application No. 09/159,360 (the reissue application) was
filed September 23, 1998 for reissue of U.S. Patent No.
5,557,844.
11. The reissue application as filed sought to cancel method
claim 1 of the patent and to add claims 2 to 19 directed to a
printed circuit board and claims 20 to 24 drawn to a method of
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