In Re Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield

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• explaining that reissue is designed to “correct an inadvertent error in the original patent”
• refusing to consider new ground for affirmance that would require determination of scope of a prior patent and a comparison between the claims of the prior patent and the claims of the application
• refusing to consider new grounds that the Board did not accept
• “Although some of the forego- ing judicial statements standing alone could be read to support the principle the Board here applied, those statements must be read in the light of the facts of the cases, the precise issues to be resolved therein, and the courts’ holdings.”

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