Lerner v. Ladd’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
October 1990
most recently cited
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Applies 35 U.S.C. § 121 · 35 U.S.C. § 145
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“a restriction requirement. Plain common sense dictates that a divisional application filed as a result of a restriction requirement may not contain claims drawn to the invention set forth in the claims elected and prosecuted to patent in the parent application. The divisional application must have claims drawn only to the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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