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"It is well settled*** a patentee cannot successfully contend that his patent shall be construed as if it still contained the claims which were*** rejected and withdrawn."
- in Monolith Portland Mid. Co. v. Reconstruction F. Corp., 1955 and 5 similar citations
Nor can an interpretation be given the allowed claims which would revive the claims which were abandoned in order to obtain the patent.
- in Altoona Publix Theatres, Inc. v. American Tri-Ergon Corp., 1935 and 3 similar citations
—for instance, the defendant' s process did not include the first step of the plaintiff' s patented method; 115 in
- in Eliminating the single-entity rule in joint infringement cases: Liability … and 3 similar citations
A patent for a method or process claim is not infringed unless all of the steps or stages of the process are used
- in Engelhard Industries, Inc. v. Research Instrumental Corp., 1963 and 2 similar citations
—the circuit court held that in light of the patentee's multiple limiting amendments, his claims were restricted to the eight-step process described in the specification, and that to find an infringement of the process, " `a person must be shown to have followed substantially the same process, the same mode of reaching the result as is described in the specifications.'"
- in Festo Corp. v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki, 2000 and one similar citation
"If... the plaintiff had invented an entirely new process, which had revolutionized the art of preparing rawhide for belting and other purposes, it might be that the court ought to give that broad construction to the patent which was justified in the case of a foundation patent; but... when, as in this case, all the substantial steps in the process were old, the utmost that the plaintiff …
- in The law of chemical patents and 2 similar citations
Having originally sought broader claims, which were rejected, and having acquiesced in such rejection, and having withdrawn such claims, and substituted therefor this narrower claim, describing a particular or specific lock, as such, neither the patentee nor his assignees can be allowed, under the authorities, to insist upon such construction of the allowed claim as …
- in Corbin Cabinet Lock Co. v. Eagle Lock Co., 1893 and one similar citation
If it be a claim to a combination, and be restricted to specific elements, all must be regarded as material, leaving open only the question whether an omitted part is supplied byan equivalent device or instrumentality.
- in Cbe Wasbinaton Law Reporter and one similar citation
Additionally, the specification must describe the "best mode" of producing the invention and conclude with claims which point out and distinctly claim the "subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention
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120 F. Supp. 42 - Dist. Court, D. New Jersey 1954
26 F. Supp. 217 - Dist. Court, D. Massachusetts 1938
30 F. Supp. 534 - Dist. Court, ND Ohio 1937
18 F. Supp. 383 - Dist. Court, WD Michigan 1935
48 F. 2d 144 - Circuit Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit 1931
45 F. 2d 652 - Dist. Court, D. Colorado 1930
7 F. 2d 83 - Circuit Court of Appeals, 1st Circuit 1925
150 US 38 - Supreme Court 1893
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