REVERSED

1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
Ex Parte Lowman et al ADAMS 103(a) ROBERT L. MCDOWELL

Ex Parte Pastan et al GREEN 112(1) KLARQUIST SPARKMAN, LLP

Ex Parte Slimak SCHEINER 112(1) NOVAK, DRUCE & QUIGG LLP

2100 Computer Architecture and Software
Ex Parte Lubbers et al DIXON 102(e)/103(a) HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY

Ex Parte Martinez et al BARRY 102(e) HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY

2600 Communications
Ex Parte Chater-Lea HAHN 103(a)/112(1) 112(2) 37 C.F.R. § 41.50(b) MOTOROLA, INC.

3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
Ex Parte Goujon et al O’NEILL 103(a) WESTERNGECO L.L.C. KEVIN MCENANEY

Ex Parte Marui HORNER improper recapture KNOBBE MARTENS OLSON & BEAR LLP

If a patentee attempts to “recapture” what the patentee previously surrendered in order to obtain allowance of original patent claims, that “deliberate withdrawal or amendment … cannot be said to involve the inadvertence or mistake contemplated by 35 U.S.C. § 251, and is not an error of the kind which will justify the granting of a reissue patent which includes the [subject] matter withdrawn.” Mentor Corp. v. Coloplast, Inc. , 998 F.2d 992, 995 (Fed. Cir. 1993) (quoting Haliczer v. United States, 356 F.2d 541, 545 (Ct. Cl. 1966)); see also Hester Industries Inc. v. Stein, Inc., 142 F.3d 1472, 1480 (Fed. Cir. 1998).

Mentor Corp. v. Coloplast, Inc., 998 F.2d 992, 27 USPQ2d 1521 (Fed. Cir. 1993) . . . 1412.02

Hester Industries, Inc. v. Stein, Inc., 142 F.3d 1472, 46 USPQ2d 1641(Fed. Cir. 1998). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1412.02

Ex Parte Miller CRAWFORD 102(b) Siemens Corporation

3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
Ex Parte Lindgren MEDLEY 103(a) YOUNG & THOMPSON

AFFIRMED-IN-PART

2600 Communications
Ex Parte Holland KRIVAK 112(1)/102(b)/103(a) HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY

2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
Ex Parte Kim GARRIS 103(a) CANTOR COLBURN, LLP

3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
Ex Parte Fulks STAICOVICI 103(a) RICHARD D. FUERLE

Ex Parte Eschenburg LEE 102(b)/103(a) CARLSON, GASKEY & OLDS, P.C.

3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
Ex Parte Ferree STAICOVICI 112(1)/102(b)/103(a) 37 C.F.R. § 41.50(b) GIFFORD, KRASS, SPRINKLE, ANDERSON & CITKOWSKI, P.C