THOMPSON v. COE

No. 8309.

138 F.2d 284 (1943)

THOMPSON et al. v. COE, Com'r of Patents.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided October 25, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Arthur W. Dickey, of Detroit, Mich., of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States, pro hac vice, by special leave of court, with whom Mr. Stephen W. Blore, of Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. W. W. Cochran, Solicitor, United States Patent Office, of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

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


MILLER, Associate Justice.

The invention claimed in this case is for a process of rust-proofing metallic objects. The three claims selected by appellants as typical are set out in the margin.1 The District Court decided that none of the claims recites anything amounting to invention over the prior art. Appellants challenge other findings of the court which are concerned with the sufficiency of evidence to support particular claims and...

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