In Re Norman K. Alton, Mary A. Peters, Yitzhak Tabinsky, and David L. Snitman

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• noting that “the burden placed on the examiner varies, depending upon what the applicant claims”
• remanding to the PTO for further proceedings after finding that the examiner and Board erred as a matter of law in concluding that the applicant failed to rebut the prima facie case
• if a person of ordinary skill in the art reading the application would understand the inventor to have been in possession of the claimed invention at the time of filing, the adequate written description requirement is met

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).