BROWN & BIGELOW v. WATSON

No. 12517.

232 F.2d 41 (1955)

BROWN & BIGELOW, Paul W. Felt, Appellants, v. Robert C. WATSON, Commissioner of Patents, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided December 29, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Almon S. Nelson, Washington, D. C., for appellants.

Mr. Joseph Schimmel, Counsel, U. S. Patent Office, with whom Mr. E. L. Reynolds, Sol. U. S. Patent Office at the time record was filed, was on the brief, for appellee.

Mr. Clarence W. Moore, Sol. U. S. Patent Office, also entered an appearance for appellee.

Before PRETTYMAN, WILBUR K. MILLER and DANAHER, Circuit Judges.


DANAHER, Circuit Judge.

Appellants asked the District Court to authorize the Patent Office to issue a method patent based upon the following claim:

"The method of charging a cigarette lighter with a supply of fuel which consists in, injecting a normally instantly volatile, compressed liquefied fuel in atmosphere, into a check valved fuel chamber of the lighter by attaching a cartridge filled with liquefied fuel to the lighter fuel pressure chamber, simultaneously...

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