MURPHY v. COE

No. 7026.

99 F.2d 994 (1938)

MURPHY v. COE, Com'r of Patents.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided September 26, 1938.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sol Shappirio, of Washington, D. C., for appellants.

R. F. Whitehead, Solicitor, U. S. Patent Office, of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before GRONER, Chief Justice, and STEPHENS and EDGERTON, Associate Justices.


EDGERTON, Associate Justice.

Appellants applied to the Patent Office for a patent on an opalescent lacquer, the process of making it, and a sheet of metal coated with it. The Office rejected the claims, for lack of invention, and appellants brought a bill in equity against the Commissioner of Patents under R.S. Sec. 4915, 35 U.S.C.A. § 63. The District Court sustained the Patent Office and dismissed the bill.

It appears that before appellants' lacquer...

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