THIS DOCUMENT WAS NOT WRITTEN WITH PUBLICATION IN MIND AND IS NOT BINDING PRECEDENT OF THE BOARD Paper No. ___ UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE _____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES _____________ Ex parte NAOYASU MIYAGAWA and YASUHIRO GOTOH _____________ Appeal No. 2005-2750 Application 09/460,221 for reissue of Patent 5,235,581 ______________ HEARD: December 12, 2005 _______________ Before PATE, MARTIN, and LORIN Administrative Patent Judges. MARTIN, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner's rejection of claims 26 and 29-48, which are all of the pending claims, under 35 U.S.C. § 251 on the ground of reissue recapture. We reverse. A. Background The application on appeal identifies itself as a continuation of Application 08/396,981 (“the 981 application”), which was filed on March 1, 1995, for reissuance of Patent 5,235,581 (“the original patent”), issued August 10, 1993. The ‘981 application, 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007