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Ex parte WEISHAUPT

08169959 (B.P.A.I. Jun. 23, 1998)
Ex parte WEISHAUPT

11 Cited authorities

  1. U.S. Steel Corp. v. Phillips Petroleum Co.

    865 F.2d 1247 (Fed. Cir. 1989)   Cited 43 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the patentee was entitled to a prior filing date because the earlier disclosure of polypropylene as known at that time described and enabled a later claim to "[n]ormally solid polypropylene" even though a new, higher molecular weight form of polypropylene had been subsequently discovered

  2. Application of Gay

    309 F.2d 769 (C.C.P.A. 1962)   Cited 95 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that with respect to the best mode requirement, "an inventor is in compliance therewith if he does not conceal what he feels is a preferred embodiment of his invention"

  3. Phillips Petroleum Co. v. U.S. Steel Corp.

    673 F. Supp. 1278 (D. Del. 1987)   Cited 29 times
    Rejecting claim of double-patenting and concluding that no obvious variation existed where one patent claimed a process and the other claimed a product

  4. Application of Angstadt

    537 F.2d 498 (C.C.P.A. 1976)   Cited 33 times   7 Legal Analyses
    Holding that patent applicants are not required to enable every species encompassed by their claims

  5. Application of Armbruster

    512 F.2d 676 (C.C.P.A. 1975)   Cited 18 times

    Patent Appeal No. 75-514. March 27, 1975. Keith V. Rockey, Chicago, Ill., Albert P. Halluin, attys. of record, for appellant. Frank E. Robbins, CPC International Inc., Englewood, Cliffs, New Jersey, of counsel. Joseph F. Nakamura, Washington, D.C., for the Commissioner of Patents, Gerald H. Bjorge, Washington, D.C., of counsel. Appeal from the Patent and Trademark Office Board of Appeals. Before MARKEY, Chief Judge, and RICH, BALDWIN, LANE and MILLER, Associate Judges. MILLER, Judge. This appeal

  6. In re Strahilevitz

    668 F.2d 1229 (C.C.P.A. 1982)   Cited 9 times

    Appeal No. 81-563. January 15, 1982. J. Philip Polster, St. Louis, Mo., for appellant. Joseph F. Nakamura, Sol., and Fred W. Sherling, Washington, D.C., for Patent and Trademark Office. Appeal from the Patent and Trademark Office Board of Appeals. Before MARKEY, Chief Judge, and RICH, BALDWIN, MILLER and NIES, Judges. MILLER, Judge. The decision of the Patent and Trademark Office ("PTO") Board of Appeals ("board") sustaining the rejection of claims 36-48 as unsupported by an adequate disclosure required

  7. Application of Ghiron

    442 F.2d 985 (C.C.P.A. 1971)   Cited 18 times
    Stating that "if such a selection would be `well within the skill of persons skilled in the art', such functional-type block diagrams may be acceptable and, in fact, preferable if they serve in conjunction with the rest of the specification to enable a person skilled in the art to make such a selection and practice the claimed invention with only a reasonable degree of routine experimentation"

  8. Application of Brandstadter

    484 F.2d 1395 (C.C.P.A. 1973)   Cited 12 times

    Patent Appeal No. 8892. September 20, 1973. Roy C. Lipton, Kenneth B. Hamlin, Bell Telephone Labs. Inc., Murray Hill, N.J., for appellants. S. Wm. Cochran, Washington, D.C., for the Commissioner of Patents. Jere W. Sears, Washington, D.C., of counsel. Appeal from the Patent Office Board of Appeals. Before MARKEY, Chief Judge, and RICH, ALMOND, BALDWIN and LANE, Judges. RICH, Judge. This appeal is from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals affirming the rejection of claims 1, 3-9, and

  9. Application of Doyle

    482 F.2d 1385 (C.C.P.A. 1973)   Cited 7 times

    Patent Appeal No. 9139. August 30, 1973. Henry M. Bissell (Bissell Dalgarn), Los Angeles, Cal., Donald D. Jeffery, Cleveland, Ohio, for appellant. S. Wm. Cochran, Washington, D.C., for the Commissioner of Patents. Jere W. Sears, Washington, D.C., of counsel. Appeal from the Patent Office Board of Appeals. Before MARKEY, Chief Judge, and RICH, BALDWIN, LANE, Judges, and ALMOND, Senior Judge. MARKEY, Chief Judge. This appeal is from the decision of the Board of Appeals affirming the rejection of claims

  10. Application of Scarbrough

    500 F.2d 560 (C.C.P.A. 1974)   Cited 6 times

    Patent Appeal No. 9249. June 27, 1974. Nathan Cass, Westlake Village, Cal., atty. of record, for appellant. Joseph F. Nakamura, Washington, D.C., for Commissioner of Patents. Jere W. Sears, Washington, D.C., of counsel. Appeal from the Board of Appeals. Before MARKEY, Chief Judge, and RICH, BALDWIN, LANE and MILLER, Judges. LANE, Judge. This appeal is from the decision of the Board of Appeals affirming the rejection, for insufficiency of disclosure under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, of all the

  11. Section 112 - Specification

    35 U.S.C. § 112   Cited 7,362 times   1046 Legal Analyses
    Requiring patent applications to include a "specification" that provides, among other information, a written description of the invention and of the manner and process of making and using it