DNAprint Genomics (DNAG)

[frogdreaming]

bag8ger, I don't know, I've never done it. The only experience I have is when a patent was issued in total without any deletions we resubmitted it with additional claims and received a second patent on the same subject.

It is common practice to expand the number of claims within a patent to stake out as much IP ground as possible. It is left to the patent office to pare the granted claims down to establish the actual delineation of the granted IP. If a patent is returned with no deletions it is assumed that the original claims were not expansive enough and so an ammended set of claims is introduced in order to search out the limits of the granted real estate.

Remember it is the claims listed in the approved patent that specify the actual IP being granted. The front pages of background and exposition are just building the groundwork for the claims and are not really a part of the granted protection.