In re French’s Empirical Analysis
90 F.2d 113 · 1937
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 1956
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
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Most-quoted passages
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““We think it obvious that the canceled claim 20 contains every structural limitation set out in claim 6, and that appellant, by his deliberate cancellation of the former claim in response to its rejection, and his acceptance of a patent without this claim, conceded that the subject matter is unpatentable over the pri- or art and he cannot successfully secure such claim in a reissue application. * * * “Appellant might well have exercised his rights when claim 20 or any of his claims in the original application were rejected. He could have appealed. However, he elected to cancel the claims and now cannot claim the same invention in a reissue application on the ground of inadvertence.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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