· 11/25/1919
Ross & Co. v. United States
Citations
- 9 Ct. Cust. 235
- 1919 WL 21389
- 1919 CCPA LEXIS 52
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- “Since a definition of [the critical claim] phrase cannot be extracted from the claims themselves, we look to the specification for guidance.”
- “An appropriate method for resolving the issue [when the specification contains diverse definitions of a given term] is to avoid those definitions upon which the PTO could not reasonable have relied when it issued the patent.”
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Judges: Barber, Martin, Montgomery, Smith, Vries
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