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Do you wince a little bit when you read the following sentence: “Substantial evidence supports the Board’s finding thatAmano anticipates limitation 1[C].”

Further to this previous article suggestion about waiver, I found these quotes from Federal Circuit case law to be interesting.

Chief Judge Michel (ret.) once commented that waiver is not an absolute rule and lots of times the court allows people to make new arguments on appeal: An interesting article might research when Federal Circuit judges have ignored waiver and when they have

To invoke argument-based estoppel, the prosecution history must evince a “clear and unmistakable surrender of subject matter.”

In an unusual turn of events, the Federal Circuit will not be sitting for oral arguments this August.

Anticipation requires that a single reference “describe the claimed invention with sufficient precision and detail to establish that the subject matter existed in the prior art.”

We have, however, declined to apply the doctrine of prosecution disclaimer where the alleged disavowal of claim scope is ambiguous.