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· 3/15/1984

Ball Corporation v. The United States

Citations

  • 729 F.2d 1429
  • 221 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 289
  • 1984 U.S. App. LEXIS 14870

How courts have described this case

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  • noting that a court may draw inferences from changes in claim scope
  • “The recapture rule bars the patentee from acquiring, through reissue, claims that are the same or of broader scope than those claims that were canceled from the original application.”

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Judges: Baldwin, Bennett, Smith

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