Ex parte Masham

A recitation of the manner in which a claimed apparatus is intended to be employed does not differentiate the claimed apparatus from a prior art apparatus that teaches all the structural limitations of the claim.

Written by

A language model, from how the MPEP uses this case rather than from the opinion.

Confidence

high — self-reported, not calibrated against a measured error rate

Human review

Not reviewed by a person

Read the opinion before relying on this in a filing. How these are made · Report an error