In re Dougherty’s Empirical Analysis
79 F.2d 920 · 1935
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
January 1946
most recently cited
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Relies on John E. Thropp's Sons Co. v. Seiberling
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““ * * * These claims include a plurality of interchangeable gas burners only one of which would obviously be used for the production of hot water under a given set of conditions. The other burners might be miles away in the storehouse of the service company. While claim 11 includes a changeable baffle, this expression is broad enough to cover a baffle having removable sections all of which might be used under certain circumstances. “In contending for the patentability of claim 11 and the claims which depend upon it, appellant has cited certain decisions of this Board which on their face seem to he directed to quite an analogous set of circumstances. In any combination claimed we think it essential that all recited elements shall be capable of cooperation to produce some unitary result.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Lewis
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