In re Goffe’s Empirical Analysis
542 F.2d 564 · 1976
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
April 1987
most recently cited
1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 35 U.S.C. § 112
Relies on In re Marzocchi · In re Fuetterer · In re Armbruster · In re Anderson · In re Geerdes
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“[T]o provide effective incentives, claims must adequately protect inventors. To demand that the first to disclose shall limit his claims to what he has found will work or to materials which meet the guidelines specified for “preferred” materials in a process such as the one herein involved would not serve the constitutional purpose of promoting progress in the useful arts. See In re Fuetterer, 319 F.2d 259 , 265, 50 CCPA 1453 , 1462, 138 USPQ 217 , 223 (1963). [Footnote omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Johnson
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