Appeal 2007-1119
Application 10/200,207
a continuation of Ser. No.
07/047,896, filed 7 May 1987, now abandoned.
(219 patent at 1:4–11; indentation and line-breaks added.)2
6. According to the USPTO Patent Application Location and Monitoring
("PALM") database, a final rejection was entered in the 256 application on
16 May 1996.
7. The PALM database indicates that a "Request under Rule 129 to
Reopen Prosecution" was filed and granted on 21 November 1996.
8. "Rule 129" refers to 37 C.F.R. § 1.129 (1995).
9. According to the PALM database, in due course a final rejection was
entered on 21 May 1998.
10. The PALM database records the filing of a "Continuing Prosecution
Application Continuation" ("CPA") on 21 January 1999.
11. The PALM database indicates a final rejection was entered 4 February
1999.
12. According to the PALM database, a second CPA was filed on
6 December 1999.
13. In due course, the 219 patent issued on 19 June 2001.
14. The face of the 219 patent displays the following notice:
This patent issued on a continued prosecution application filed
under 37 C.F.R. 1.53(d), and is subject to the twenty year patent
term provisions of 35 U.S.C. § 154(a)(2).
2 The 219 patent also claims the benefit of priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119 of
a Swiss application filed 23 June 1986.
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