Appeal 2007-0493
Application 10/289,967
Patent 6,144,380
B. The Inventions of the Reissue Application
3. The inventions claimed in the reissue application on appeal are
directed to function “(4) accepting handwritten information on pages of the
book” (reissue claims 1-4) and function “(3) finding character strings located
within the book” (reissue claims 5-101).
4. Appellants state that “[i]n contrast [to originally filed claim 19],
reissue independent claims 5, 27, 49, and 77 are directed to the display of
electronic book contents associated with user input search strings . . .”
(Br. 10:1-2).
C. Prosecution history of the co-pending grandparent and
second divisional applications
5. The patent sought to be reissued is based on Application
08/801,251 (which we refer to as the “original application” even though it is
the third application in the sequence), filed February 19, 1997, which is a
continuation of Application 08/454,061(which we refer to as the “first
divisional”), filed May 30, 1995, now abandoned, which is a first divisional
of 08/147,143, (which we refer to as the “grandparent”), filed November 3,
1993, now U.S. Patent 6,243,071.
6. Co-pending Application 08/454,423, (which we refer to as the
“second divisional”) was also filed May 30, 1995, now U.S. Patent
5,802,516, as a second divisional of grandparent application 08/147,143.
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