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   The CREATE Act will now permit patents with patentably indistinct claims to be separately owned, but remain valid.

   1998, Jerome Rosenstock, Patent Interference Practice Handbook, →ISBN, page 17-17

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   If you included more than one embodiment and if the overall appearance or scope of the each embodiment is patentably distinct, a restriction will be required even though all embodiments are functionally the same.

   2005, Kay H. Chin, United States Design Patent Do it Yourself!, →ISBN, page 58