APPLICATION OF HORNSTEIN

Patent Appeals No. 6284.

245 F.2d 256 (1957)

Matter of the Application of Joseph H. HORNSTEIN.

United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

June 4, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elmer L. Zwickel, Chicago, Ill., for appellant.

Clarence W. Moore, Washington, D. C. (S. Wm. Cochran, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for the Commissioner of Patents.

Before JOHNSON, Chief Judge, and O'CONNELL, RICH, and JACKSON (retired), Judges.


JACKSON, Judge.

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the Primary Examiner's final rejection of claims 8-11 of appellant's application for a patent on a contact lens.

Claim 8 is representative of the appealed claims and reads as follows:

"8. A corneal contact lens of concavo-convex form in section and of a size to lie within the area defined by the limbus having an inner central spherical...

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