Wessinger v. Vetter Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• “An inventor need not, however, explain every detail since he is speaking to those skilled in the art.”
• “[A]n applicant may, in the interests of economy of time and space, incorporate certain types of documents by specific reference in his application to such source materials.”
• “When an applicant seeks to add necessary information to a specification by incorporating a source for the information by reference, public accessibility of that source alone may be the controlling factor.”
• “[A]n applicant may, in the interests of economy of time and space, incorporate certain types of documents by specific reference in his application to such source materials.”
• “Not every foreign document la-belled a ‘patent’ is a patent within the meaning of 35 U.S.C. § 102(a) or (b).” (citing In re Ekenstam, 256 F.2d 321, 323, 118 USPQ 349, 351, 45 C.C.P.A. 1022 (1958))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).