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disclaimer by amendment

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From 315 U.S. 126 - Exhibit Supply Co. v. Ace Patents Corp. · 1942Most cited · 656 citing opinions

By the amendment he recognized and emphasized the difference between the two phrases and proclaimed his abandonment of all that is embraced in that difference. The difference which he thus disclaimed must be regarded as material, and since the amendment operates as a disclaimer of that difference it must be strictly construed against him

How often courts cite the case defining “disclaimer by amendment”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “disclaimer by amendment” — 656 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.