In re Macfarren’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““Appellant has copied the Iversen claims and urges that they are for the same invention, notwithstanding the fact that it seems too clear to require extended discussion that appellant’s disclosure does not meet the aforesaid limitation in the claims. We have no power to grant appellant these claims on the theory that they are for substantially the same invention as were the rejected claims of his application which ripened, into a patent. The sole question here is whether or not appellant discloses in the instant application the elements of the claims at bar. We cannot ignore definite limitations, regardless of the fact that they may or -may not lend patentability to the claims. (Citations omitted.)” (Emphasis supplied.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Louver Drape, Inc. v. Orr