Many parties obtain U.S. patents every year. Sometimes there are errors or deficiencies in these patents. Many minor errors may be corrected by means of a certificate of correction issued by the U.S.

In the reissue application, a number of new claims were added that encompassed the invention of the previously issued claims plus three of the non-elected inventions identified by the patent examiner.

“Although we previously addressed cases centered on prior art rejections, this does not mean that the recapture rule is limited to that context,” said the opinion. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the ...

On Aug. 10, 2022, the Federal Circuit issued a precedential opinion that provides helpful reminders on the issue of recapture, as well as dos and don'ts for prosecution and reissue applications. See ...

Kentucky police reported an "active shooter situation" on Saturday evening near Interstate-75 in London, Kentucky, where "numerous persons" have been shot in traffic. Middle Eastcategory Israeli ...

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in In re Doyle, 63 USPQ 2d 1161 (Fed Cir 2002), confronted a novel question relating to a reissue application filed by the inventor of methodology for ...