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· 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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