Titanium Metals Corporation of America v. Donald W. Banner, Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks

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• holding that an earlier species disclosure in the prior art defeats any generic claim
• noting that ap- pellee’s “own patent application does not undertake to tell anyone how to make the alloy it describes and seeks to pa- tent. It assumes that those skilled in the art would know how”
• “The proportions are so close that prima facie one skilled in the art would have expected them to have the same properties.”
• “It is also an elementary principle of patent law that when, as by a recitation of ranges or otherwise, a claim covers several compositions, the claim is ‘anticipated’ if one of them is in the prior art.”
• “It is also an elementary principle of patent law that when, as by a recitation of ranges or otherwise, a claim covers several compositions, the claim is ‘anticipated’ if one of them is in the prior art.”

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