ROBERT MICHAEL ARDIS v. SARAH HARPER ARDIS

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• holding that a patent attorney’s argument did not “clearly and unmistakably surrender” the subject matter
• finding the surrender of certain subject matter during amendment not deliberate due to error—attorney's failure to understand the scope of the invention—and thus avoiding recapture rule
• finding the surrender of certain subject matter during amendment not deliberate due to error — attorney’s failure to understand the scope of the invention — and thus avoiding recapture rule
• “An attorney’s failure to appre- ciate the full scope of the invention is one of the most com- mon sources of defects in patents, and is generally sufficient to justify reissuing a patent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).