United States Federal Circuit

The Patent and Trademark Office properly rejected the applicants' reissue application for the '568 patent entitled "Miniature x-ray source with improved output stability and voltage standoff," where the voluntary and intentional filing of a terminal disclaimer to overcome a non-statutory obviousness-type double patenting rejection during prosecution of the original patent is not an "error" correctible by reissue under 35 U.S.C. section 251.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/10/2014
• Published 06/10/2014

Judges

• TARANTO

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel