I can see a patent rejected for one claim if the patent holder and the examiner both stand their ground on their own interpretations and no compromise is reached...especially if that one claim is the most important one in the patent.
In our case though we submitted our 1-10 claims "as is' with no ammending...we then submitted 11-20 with the examiners suggested interpretation in those 10 claims...but...we still requested that our original 10 claims stand as presented from day one.
We it looke dlike we wanted from the exmainer was our 10 original and not the afjusted ones for some reason..or we when we adjusted them it wasn't all to the examainer's liking and preference and obviously we didn't compromise in any face to face meetings.
i washoping for a non-final rejecting 1-10 and accepting 11-20 with the rewording which would have only taken a letter of acceptance from us to the PTO...obviously there was lack of agreement from either side...and since they wield the big stick..we got bashed.
JMHO
