{"id":12622,"date":"2026-03-12T16:35:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T22:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=12622"},"modified":"2026-03-12T16:35:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T22:35:27","slug":"quote-for-the-day-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=12622","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>We find the district court&#8217;s concern with &#8220;what the invention is&#8221; misplaced, and its requirement that the &#8216;081 drawings &#8220;describe what is novel or important&#8221; legal error. There is &#8220;no legally recognizable or protected `essential&#8217; element, `gist&#8217; or `heart&#8217; of the invention in a combination patent.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=14679629603309035961&amp;q=vas+cath+v.+mahurkar&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=4,131\"><em>Aro Mfg. Co. v. Convertible Top Replacement Co.,<\/em> 365 U.S. 336, 345, 81 S.Ct. 599, 604, 5 L.Ed.2d 592 (1961)<\/a>. &#8220;The invention&#8221; is defined by the claims on appeal. The instant claims do not recite <em>only<\/em> a pair of semi-circular lumens, or a conical tip, or a ratio at which the tip tapers, or the shape, size, and placement of the inlets and outlets; they claim <em>a double lumen catheter<\/em> having a <em>combination<\/em> of those features. That combination invention <em>is<\/em> what the &#8216;081 drawings show. As the district court itself recognized, &#8220;what Mahurkar eventually patented is exactly what the pictures in serial &#8216;081 show.&#8221; 745 F.Supp. at 523, 17 USPQ2d at 1357.<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=12042522865526007338&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=4006\"><em>Vas-Cath Inc. v. Mahurkar,<\/em> 935 F.2d 1555, 1565 (Fed.Cir.1991).<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We find the district court&#8217;s concern with &#8220;what the invention is&#8221; misplaced, and its requirement that the &#8216;081 drawings &#8220;describe what is novel or important&#8221; legal error. There is &#8220;no legally recognizable or protected `essential&#8217; element, `gist&#8217; or `heart&#8217; of the invention in a combination patent.&#8221; Aro Mfg. Co. v. Convertible Top Replacement Co., 365 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12623,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12622\/revisions\/12623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}