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 | United States. Patent Office - Copyright - 1964 - 972 pages
...question which is inapposite to the instant case. • The third paragraph of 35 DSC 112 reads : An elemtnt in a claim for a combination may be expressed as a means or step (or performing a specified function without the recital of structure, material, or acts In support... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1951 - 246 pages
...that I will mention later. Section 112 relating to patent specification contains a provision that— an element in a claim for a combination may be expressed...specified function without the recital of structure or acts in support thereof, and such claim shall be construed to cover the corresponding structure,... | |
 | United States. Patent Office - Copyright - 1958 - 504 pages
...a means * * * for performing a specified function without the recital of structure, material, * * * in support thereof, and such claim shall be construed to cover the corresponding structure, * * * described in the specification and equivalents thereof." Appellants claimed that the "adapted"... | |
 | United States. Patent Office - Copyright - 1959 - 540 pages
...definite speed in the manner specified. Such a definition conforms to the provision of 35 USC 112 that an element in a claim for a combination "may be expressed...of structure, material or acts in support thereof." The instant situation differs from that presented in In re Lamb. There the "whereby" clause did not... | |
 | United States. Patent Office - Copyright - 1960 - 526 pages
...unnoticed and yet "it will be as effective to invali4 This paragraph rends : "An element in n claim for n combination may be expressed as a means or step for...performing a specified function without the recital of structuremattrinl, or acts in support thereof, and snch claim shall be construed to cover the corresponding... | |
 | United States. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals - Customs administration - 1969 - 808 pages
...similar In reciting "means absorbing said excess material and stiffening said panel against flexing." « An element In a claim for a combination may be expressed...structure, material, or acts In support thereof, and snch claim shall be construed to cover the corresponding structure, material, or acts described In... | |
 | United States. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals - Customs administration - 1957 - 442 pages
...definite speed in the manner specified. Such a definition conforms to the provision of 35 USC 112 that an element in a claim for a combination "may be expressed...of structure, material or acts in support thereof." The instant situation differs from that presented in In re Lamb. There the "whereby" clause did not... | |
 | United States. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals - Customs administration - 1956 - 406 pages
...a means * * * for performing a specified function without the recital of structure, material, * * * in support thereof, and such claim shall be construed to cover the corresponding structure, * * * described in the specification and equivalents thereof." Appellants claimed that the "adapted"... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1971 - 770 pages
...include all the limitations of the claim incorporated by reference into 38 the dependent claim. 39 " (c) An element in a claim for a combination may be expressed as 40 a means or step for performing a specified function without the recital 16 1 of structure, material,... | |
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