Appeal No. 1998-0454 Page 2
Application No. 08/417,985
claims in a reissue application more than two years after the
issue date of the original patent. The original patent, U.S.
Patent No. 4,779,147, was issued on October 18, 1988. This
reissue application was filed April 6, 1995.
The claimed invention is directed to a tape recorder with
an automatic reversing mechanism and wherein fast forwarding or
rewinding of a tape started manually is ended by releasing an
operating member therefor from an actuated arresting position.
No prior art is relied upon in the rejection.
OPINION
We reverse.
35 U.S.C. 251 permits reissuance of defective patents when
a “patent is, through error without any deceptive intention,
deemed wholly or partly inoperative or invalid...” The statute
also provides that
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