Appeal No. 2007-0441
Reissue Application 10/155,945
Patent 5,311,959
1 particularly at figures 4 through 7 does not show this
2 feature.
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4 Amendment filed 30 April 1993, page 2.
5 The Examiner was not totally satisfied with the amendment.
6 A telephone interview is said to have taken place on or about 19 May 1993.
7 Office action mailed 28 May 1993.
8 In the Office action of 28 May 1993, the Examiner entered an Examiner’s
9 Amendment of claim 1 to read as follows [italicized matter added to claim 1 as
10 amended by Applicant; matter deleted in strikeout]:
11 A mine tool roof bit insert having two flat parallel
12 sides extending in the long dimension of the insert and
13 having two uppermost slanted surfaces extending
14 between said two flat parallel sides, the insert having a
15 trough at the top thereof, the trough and the two
16 uppermost slanted surfaces being substantially parallel
17 and substantially orthogonal along [its] their entire length
18 to the flat parallel sides, the trough being between the
19 two uppermost slanted surfaces.
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21 In the Office action, the Examiner advised Applicant as follows:
22 Should the changes and/or additions be unacceptable to applicant, an
23 amendment may be filed as provided by 37 C.F.R. § 1.312. To ensure
24 consideration of such an amendment, it MUST be submitted no later
25 than the payment of the Issue Fee.
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27 Office action of 28 May 1993, page 2.
28 Applicant did not submit any amendment, paid the issue fee and the patent
29 issued on 17 May 1994.
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