REVERSED
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3772 Ex Parte Gillis et al 11645918 - (D) SAINDON 101/112(4)/102/103 PHILIPS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & STANDARDS BROWN, MICHAEL A
AFFIRMED
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1765 Ex Parte Ebert et al 11977505 - (D) McKELVEY 103 NOVAK DRUCE CONNOLLY BOVE + QUIGG LLP LISTVOYB, GREGORY
1791 Ex Parte Bashor et al 11747266 - (D) GAUDETTE 103 GENERAL MILLS, INC. DEGUIRE, KATHERINE E
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2835 Ex Parte Gandrud 11145900 - (D) GONSALVES 103 ZARLEY LAW FIRM P.L.C. DINH, TUAN T
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A negative limitation that does not appear in the Specification as filed may “introduce new concepts and violate the description requirement of the first paragraph of 35 U.S.C. 112.” Ex parte Grasselli, 231 USPQ 393, 394 (BPAI 1983), aff’d mem. 738 F.2d 453 (Fed. Cir. 1984).
However,
[t]he notion that one who fully discloses, and teaches those skilled in the art how to make and use, a genus and numerous species therewithin, has somehow failed to disclose, and teach those skilled in the art how to make and use, that genus minus two of those species, and has thus failed to satisfy the requirements of §112, first paragraph, appears to result from a hypertechnical application of legalistic prose relating to that provision of the statute.
Application of Johnson, 558 F.2d 1008, 1019 (CCPA 1977).
Grasselli, Ex parte, 231 USPQ 393 (Bd. App. 1983) 2143.03 , 2173.05(i)
Johnson, In re, 558 F.2d 1008, 194 USPQ 187 (CCPA 1977) 2164.08, 2173.05(i)
