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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 14 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Vas-Cath Incorporated and Gambro, Inc. v. Sakharam D. Mahurkar, and Quinton Instruments Company.

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1 Vas-Cath Incorporated and Gambro, Inc. v. Sakharam D. Mahurkar, and Quinton Instruments Company Anchor
cafc · 1991
green “adequate description of the invention guards against the inventor's overreaching by insisting that he recount his invention in such detail that his future claims can be determined to be encompassed within his original creation.” 9
2 In Re Jacques Gosteli, Ivan Ernest and Robert B. Woodward
cafc · 1989
green “the description must clearly allow persons of ordinary skill in the art to recognize that the inventor invented what is claimed.” 5

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