Court Opinion

ID: 9637934
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 15:27:04.556154+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:02:28.358679
License: Public Domain

DENISON, Circuit Judge.
I concur; but, when we take together the specification and the publications which by reference it incorporates, the record indicates to me, in a fairly satisfactory way — though not as clearly as would be desirable — that the older gases were in familiar use in the spectral and similar tubes, at pressures averaging 5/10 of a millimeter; so that, multiplying by ten, Claude was contemplating and disclosing a use of perhaps 5 mm. If this view were correct, it would remove much' of the difficulty coming from a somewhat uncertain translation of a French idiomatic phrase; which probably, as sueh phrases do in English, takes variant meanings from variant contexts. This view, too, makes the stated ampere-eleetrode ratio indicate, not a critical point in any close sense, but an approximation, and suggests that, by including this ratio as an element of his claim, Claude has.only failed to inclose a fraction of his field..