APPLICATION OF JOHNSON

Patent Appeals No. 5595.

175 F.2d 791 (1949)

Application of JOHNSON.

United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

June 28, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Woodling & Krost, Cleveland, Ohio (George V. Woodling and Bruce B. Krost, Cleveland, Ohio, of counsel), for appellant.

W. W. Cochran, Washington, D. C. (H. S. Miller, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for the Commissioner of Patents.

Before GARRETT, Chief Judge, and JACKSON, O'CONNELL, and JOHNSON, Associate Judges.


JOHNSON, Associate Judge.

Appellant's application for a design patent for an ornamental design for a pair of pliers (the type known as gas burner and pipe pliers) was rejected by the examiner as lacking invention over the references. The Board of Appeals of the U. S. Patent Office affirmed that rejection relying on the following references:

  Mihan,     272,573,   Feb. 20, 1883;
  Smith,   1,290,846,   Jan.  7, 1919;
  Seger,   2,070,217,   Feb.  9,...

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