Application of Joseph Francis Skrivan’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “[W]e recognize that the disputed limitation deals only with a physical operating condition of an admittedly old process. We see no more reason for requiring that appellant recite the specific angles at which the reactants in his process are to be combined than we do for requiring the recitation of flow rates or size of reactor or any other physical operating condition which might be required in order to obtain an operable process. Those limitations deal with factors which must be presumed to be within the level of ordinary skill in the art. We hold that claims need not recite such factors where one of ordinary skill in the art, to whom the specification and claims are directed, would consider them obvious. [Emphasis supplied.]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Barnett v. United States · 718 F. Supp. 274 - Rohm and Haas Co. v. Mobil Oil Corp.