 | United States. Patent Office - 1955 - 172 lapas
...pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention. An element in a claim for a combination may be expressed as a means or step for performing a specified function without the recital of structure, material, or... | |
 | United States - 1971 - 1040 lapas
...construed to include all the limitations of the claim incorporated by reference into the dependent claim. An element in a claim for a combination may be expressed as a means or step for performing a specified function without the recital of structure, material, or... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1951 - 246 lapas
...that I will mention later. Section 112 relating to patent specification contains a provision that— an element in a claim for a combination may be expressed as a means or step for performing a specified function without the recital of structure or acts in support... | |
 | United States. Patent Office - 1954 - 480 lapas
...pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention. An element in a claim for a combination may be expressed as a means or step for performing a specified function without the recital of structure, material, or... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1956 - 440 lapas
...invalid claims which were said to be "functional." Section 103, last paragraph, now positively states : "An element in a claim for a combination may be expressed as a means or step for performing a specified function without the recital of structure, material, or... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1972 - 292 lapas
...construed to include all the limitations of the claim incorporated by reference into the dependent claim. " (c) An element in a claim for a combination may be expressed as a means or step for performing a specified function without the recital of structure, material, or... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1973 - 732 lapas
...construed to include all the limitations of the claim incorporated by reference into the dependent claim. (c) An element in a claim for a combination may be expressed as a means or step for performing a specified function without the recital of structure, material, or... | |
 | Teruo Doi, Warren L. Shattuck - 1977 - 452 lapas
...construed to include all the limitations of the claim incorporated by reference into the dependent claim. An element in a claim for a combination may be expressed as a means or step for performing a specified function without the recital of structure, material, or... | |
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An element in a claim for a combination may be expressed as a means or step for performing a specified function without the recital of structure, material, or acts in support thereof, and such claim shall be construed to cover the corresponding structure,... 
