Ex Parte Rosenberg et al - Page 19



             Appeal No. 2005-0642                                                                               
             Application No. 09/568,278                                                                         

                                            III. DISCUSSION                                                     
                                           A.  Recapture Principles                                             
                                                      (1)                                                       
                                                  The statute                                                   
                   The reissue statute expressly permits a patentee to correct an error thus                    
             permitting patentee to obtain reissue claims broader than the originally issued                    
             patent claims at any time within two (2) years from the date the original patent                   
             issues.  More particularly, 35 U.S.C. § 251, ¶¶ 1 and 4, provide in pertinent part:                
                   Whenever any patent is, through error without any deceptive                                  
                   intention, deemed wholly or partly inoperative or invalid, by reason of                      
                   a defective specification or drawing, or by reason of the patentee                           
                   claiming more or less than he had a right to claim in the patent, the                        
                   Director shall, on the surrender of such patent and the payment of the                       
                   fee required by law, reissue the patent for the invention disclosed in                       
                   the original patent, and in accordance with a new and amended                                
                   application, for the unexpired part of the term of the original patent.                      

                   No reissued patent shall be granted enlarging the scope of the claims                        
                   of the original patent unless applied for within two years from the                          
                   grant of the original patent.                                                                






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