In re Rekers

Before requiring identification of the prior inventor and threatening abandonment for failure to comply, the examiner must ensure that the claims in the application under examination and in the other application are in fact conflicting.

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A language model, from how the MPEP uses this case rather than from the opinion.

Confidence

medium — self-reported, not calibrated against a measured error rate

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Not reviewed by a person

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