My response to you is still the same.

Mark, you are posting an article written by someone urging reexams. You are quoting someone's opinion, not the law.

From 35 U.S.C. 307

<(b) Any proposed amended or new claim determined to be patentable and incorporated into a patent following a reexamination proceeding will have the same effect as that specified in section 252 of this title for reissued patents >

So what does section 252 say?

<every reissued patent shall have the same effect and operation in law, on the trial of actions for causes thereafter arising, as if the same had been originally granted in such amended form, but in so far as the claims of the original and reissued patents are substantially identical>

From Dewey & LeBoeuf IP Watch

<an amendment that clarifies the text of the claim or makes it more definite without affecting its scope is generally viewed as identical>

Courts look at whether a product infringes on the amended claim but not the original. That is typically how they determine whether the amended claim is identical. I doubt anyone on this board is capable of understanding what a court will decide with respect to claim 29. IMHO they are identical, but we can be sure that this point would receive much attention by both sides in any court arguments. Opty