Reissue applications represent a very small fraction of the total number of applications filed at the USPTO each year. Indeed, at the midpoint of 2025, over 1.2 million utility applications have been ...

Many parties obtain U.S. patents every year. Sometimes there are errors or deficiencies in these patents. Many minor errors may be corrected by means of a certificate of correction issued by the U.S.

A recent ruling by the Federal Circuit gives patent owners more power to correct patent applications. The court ruled in In re Tanaka that "adding dependent claims as a hedge against possible ...

“Although we previously addressed cases centered on prior art rejections, this does not mean that the recapture rule is limited to that context,” said the opinion. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the ...

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in In re Doyle, 63 USPQ 2d 1161 (Fed Cir 2002), confronted a novel question relating to a reissue application filed by the inventor of methodology for ...