Key legal question
Whether reinstatement was available after an expressly declared patent waiver
Extracted holding
Reinstatement was unavailable because the loss of rights resulted from an express waiver declaration, not from a missed deadline.
Extracted reasoning
The court held that Art. 47 PatG on reinstatement did not directly apply; the request was nevertheless late because the one-year absolute deadline ran from the waiver declaration, not from discovery of the mistake.