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| | patents - case 7: article 1 |
 | | A follow-up application filed in 1982 included several new claims that "purported to find refuge in the disclosure of the great, great, great, great grandparent application filed 28 years earlier," the report said. |
 | | Lemelson's pursuit of new patents that piggyback onto applications he originally filed in the 1950's was "abusive." In a report on June 16, she said Mr. |
 | | Lemelson's critics describe his patents as "submarine" patents, which, because of an applicant's dilatory tactics, surface years or even decades after they were originally filed, just as the technology comes into wide use. |
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