IN RE MADSEN

Patent Appeal No. 4229.

109 F.2d 242 (1940)

In re MADSEN.

Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

February 5, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles M. Thomas, of Washington, D. C., and Henry E. Rockwell, of New Haven, Conn., for appellant.

Howard S. Miller, of Washington, D. C., for Commissioner of Patents.

Before GARRETT, Presiding Judge, and BLAND, HATFIELD, LENROOT, and JACKSON, Associate Judges.


LENROOT, Associate Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming a decision of the examiner rejecting all of the claims of appellant's application for a patent, five in number, for lack of patentability over the cited prior art.

Claim 1 is illustrative of the claims in issue, and reads as follows: "1. A football or like ball for use in athletic contests having a relatively stiff case and an inner...

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