Court Opinion

ID: 9450071
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 16:34:11.749508+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:32:08.196065
License: Public Domain

SMITH, Judge
(dissenting).
It is with regret that I find it necessary to dissent from the majority opinion and to write what may well be called the third movement in the requiem for the “new use of a known process” provision of 35 U.S.C. § 100(b).1 The new use provision, as stated in the Patent Act of 1952, had a bright promise and might well have emancipated the patent law from the shackles with which traditional claim forms had enslaved it. With the present decision, I fear that bright promise is dead.

. The first movement will be found in my dissent in In re Larsen, 292 F.2d 531, 49 CCPA 711; the second in my dissent in In re Hoeksema, 332 F.2d 374, 51 CCPA- (PA 7050).