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· 7/3/1985

In Re John A. Donohue

Citations

  • 766 F.2d 531
  • 226 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 619
  • 1985 U.S. App. LEXIS 15739

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • sustaining an anticipation rejection over a reference disclosing a compound and other references disclosing sufficient information to make that compound
  • stating patent is invalid for anticipation where “each limitation of a claim [can] be found in a single reference, practice, or device”
  • it is not “necessary that an invention disclosed in a publication shall actually have been made in order to satisfy the enablement requirement”
  • “It is not, however, necessary that an invention disclosed in a publication shall have actually been made in order to satisfy the en-ablement requirement.”
  • \It is well settled that prior art under 35 U.S.C. § 102 (b) must sufficiently describe the claimed invention to have placed the public in possession of it.\
  • “Such possession is effected if one of ordinary skill in the art could have combined the publication’s description of the invention with his own knowledge to make the claimed invention”

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Judges: Markey, Baldwin, Miller

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