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Update: May 21, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n The Federal Circuit issued an errata with respect to the Reoforce<\/em> opinion on April 28, 2017. \u00a0The errata significantly changes the language of the decision in some respects: \u00a0[Link<\/a>]. \u00a0For example, the correction now states that an unpatented mining claim is a property right in the full sense:<\/p>\n The Mining Law allows the holder of a valid mining claim to apply for \u201ca \u2018patent,\u2019 that is, an official document issued by the United States attesting that fee title to the land is in the private owner.\u201d <\/span>Kunkes v. United States<\/span>, 78 F.3d 1549, 1551 (Fed. Cir. 1996). <\/span>[in- sert footnote 1] <\/span>Until a patent issues, however, the mining claimant has an \u201cunpatented\u201d mining claim, a \u201cunique form of property.\u201d <\/span>Best<\/span>, 371 U.S. at 335\u2013 36; <\/span>see also Union Oil Co. v. Smith<\/span>, 249 U.S. 337, 349 (1919) (an unpatented mining claim is \u201ca property right in the full sense\u201d).<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n ________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n The Federal Circuit issued a different kind of patent opinion last week — a decision relating to patents on mining claims. \u00a0Apparently, the patents that the US government issues for mining claims are considered property rights in the full sense:<\/p>\n Once established, a mining claimant receives “a `patent,’ that is, an official document issued by the United States attesting that fee title to the land is in the private owner.” <\/span>Kunkes v. United States,<\/em> 78 F.3d 1549, 1551 (Fed. Cir. 1996)<\/a>. A patented mining claim is “a property right in the full sense.” <\/span>Union Oil Co. v. Smith,<\/em>249 U.S. 337, 349 (1919)<\/a>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n REOFORCE, INC. v. US<\/em>, No. 2015-5084 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 17, 2017)(slip op. at page 4).<\/span><\/p>\n The court’s opinion in <\/span>REOFORCE, INC. v. US<\/em>, No. 2015-5084 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 17, 2017) is available [here<\/a>] and [here<\/a>].<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ________________________________________________________________ Update: May 21, 2017 The Federal Circuit issued an errata with respect to the Reoforce opinion on April 28, 2017. \u00a0The errata significantly changes the language of the decision in some respects: \u00a0[Link]. \u00a0For example, the correction now states that an unpatented mining claim is a property right in the full sense: The Mining […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8798"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8962,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8798\/revisions\/8962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}