reconsideration
reconsideration n. 重新考虑；重新审议
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reconsideration of bill
reconsideration of bill (1)对起诉的重新审议 大陪审团在起诉被投票否决，或被撤销、搁置或经批准重新审理后，对起诉的重新审议。 (2)对议案的重新审议 对已通过议案的重新审议。在无特殊的相反规则的情况下，只要议案仍由立法机关掌握，立法机关保留对议案重新审议的权力。
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request for reconsideration
request for reconsideration. Patents. An applicant’s submission of further arguments after a patent claim’s rejection. [Cases: Patents 104. C.J.S. Patents §§ 145–147, 149–151, 173–175.]
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reconsider
reconsider, vb. To discuss or take up (a matter) again (legislators voted to reconsider the bill). • Under parliamentary law, a motion to reconsider sets aside a certain vote already taken and restores the motion on which the vote is being reconsidered to its status immediately before the vote occurred. Making a motion to reconsider
office action
office action. Patents. A patent examiner’s communication with a patent applicant, usu. to state the reasons for denying an application. See UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE . [Cases: Patents 108. C.J.S. Patents §§ 144, 148–151.] advisory office action. An office action in which the patent examiner replies to an applicant’s response following final rejection
clinch
clinch, vb. Parliamentary law. To preclude further action on (an adopted motion or series of motions) by moving at once for reconsideration and then defeating that motion. • The clincher motion in a legislative body usu. takes the form of a motion to “reconsider and lay on the table [the motion to reconsider].” Since the
locus poenitentiae
locus poenitentiae (loh-k[schwa]s pen-[schwa]-ten-shee-ee). [Latin “place of repentance”] 1. A point at which it is not too late for one to change one’s legal position; the possibility of withdrawing from a contemplated course of action, esp. a wrong, before being committed to it. “The requirement of an overt act before conspirators can be prosecuted and
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newly discovered evidence
Evidence existing at the time of a motion or trial but then unknown to a party, who, upon later discovering it, may assert it as grounds for reconsideration or a new trial. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b). [Cases: Criminal Law 938; Federal Civil Procedure 2350, 2655; New Trial 99. C.J.S. Criminal Law § 1447;
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renewal
renewal, n. 1. The act of restoring or reestablishing. 2. Parliamentary law. The introduction or consideration of a question already disposed of. — Also termed renewal of a motion. See restorative motion under MOTION(2). Cf. RECONSIDER. 3. The re-creation of a legal relationship or the replacement of an old contract with a new contract, as
advisory office action
An office action in which the patent examiner replies to an applicant’s response following final rejection of the application. • An advisory action addresses the status of an amendment made in the applicant’s response to the final rejection, indicates the status of the claims for appeal, addresses an affidavit or exhibit, or responds to a
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