IN RE SHORTELL

Patent Appeal No. 4901.

142 F.2d 292 (1944)

In re SHORTELL.

Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

April 4, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederic P. Warfield, of New York City, for appellants.

W. W. Cochran, of Washington, D. C., for the Commissioner of Patents.

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


LENROOT, Associate Judge.

This appeal presents a question as to whether an improvement made by appellant in a hack saw blade was inventive. The Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirmed a decision by the Primary Examiner rejecting five claims of appellant's application for a patent upon the ground of lack of patentability over the prior cited art.

Certain claims were rejected by the examiner which were later withdrawn.

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