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806.04(e) Claims *>Limited< to Species [R-3] - 800 Restriction in Applications Filed Under 35 U.S.C. 111; Double Patenting
806.04(e) Claims *>Limited< to Species [R-3]
Claims are definitions of inventions. Claims are never species. *>The scope of a claim< may be *>limited< to a single disclosed embodiment (i.e., a single species, and thus be designated a specific species claim), or a claim may include two or more of the disclosed embodiments within the breadth and scope of *>the claim< (and thus be designated a generic or genus claim).
Species are always the specifically different embodiments.
Species **>may be either< independent >or related< as disclosed (see MPEP § 806.04 and § 806.04(b)) **.