Your client Su Co., a manufacturer of non-spill sippie cups, calls you with a problem regarding a patent application for which you recently secured allowance on its behalf.
Hakim v. Cannon Avent Group: What's the Spillover?
This article examines <i>Hakim v. Cannon Avent Group</i>, which arguably expands the law on claim scope disclaimers. Thus, based on <i>Hakim</i>, when filing an RCE or continuation to broaden claims, care must be taken to ensure that any possible disavowal is unequivocally rescinded. Succinctly asking the examiner to reconsider prior art and noting that the current amendments broaden the claims, after a clear disavowal of claim scope is present, may not always be enough.
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