reduction to practice
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From 270 U.S. 390 - Alexander Milburn Co. v. Davis-Bournonville Co. · 1926Most cited · 721 citing opinions
It is said that without a claim the thing described is not reduced to practice. But this seems to us to rest on a false theory helped out by the fiction that by a claim it is reduced to practice. A description that would bar a patent if printed in a periodical or in an issued patent is equally effective in an application so far as reduction to practice goes.