dunn, animal

REVERSED

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AFFIRMED

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Third, the Examiner explains that the comparative data contains a number of unfixed variables and “without the identities and amounts of the components being held constant systematically, the probative value of appellants’ evidence of nonobviousness is limited.” Ans. 8-9; In re Dunn, 349 F.2d 433, 439 (CCPA 1965) (cause and effect sought to be proven is lost in the welter of unfixed variables).

Dunn, In re, 349 F.2d 433, 146 USPQ 479 (CCPA 1965). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804.02

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See generally Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Quigg, 932 F.2d 920, 923 (Fed. Cir. 1991) (“The use of a negative limitation to define the metes and bounds of the claimed subject matter is a permissible form of expression.”) (citation omitted).

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