APPLICATION OF LUDTKE

Patent Appeal No. 8513.

441 F.2d 660 (1971)

Application of William P. LUDTKE and George J. Sloan, Jr.

United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

May 6, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John O. Tresansky, Washington, D. C., attorney of record, for appellant.

S. Wm. Cochran, Washington, D. C., for the Commissioner of Patents. Edward E. Kubasiewicz, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Before RICH, ALMOND, BALDWIN and LANE, Judges, and SKELTON, Judge, Customs Court, sitting by designation.


ALMOND, Judge.

This is an appeal from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals, adhered to on reconsideration, affirming the rejection of claims 1-7 of appellants' application entitled "Sequential Opening Parachute."1 No claims have been allowed.

The invention relates to a parachute canopy which will sequentially open and thus gradually decelerate. The result of such sequential opening is the reduction of the opening...

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