29 App. D.C. 91 - In re Ams’s Empirical Analysis
1907
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2
cited by 2 later decisions
December 1949
most recently cited
1 federal appellate ·
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Relies on Halliday v. Stuart · 21 App. D.C. 519 - In re Starkey
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“If the patentee did not think the attorneys who prosecuted his original application thoroughly understood his invention, and for that reason failed to obtain as broad a claim as might have been obtained, he should have consulted other counsel without delay.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Application of Hayes“should be discouraged, and should be countenanced only in exceptional cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Application of Hayes
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