APPLICATION OF KERN

Patent Appeal No. 6671.

289 F.2d 513 (1961)

Application of Henry W. KERN.

United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

As Amended on Rehearing July 7, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Balluff & McKinley, Detroit, Mich. (E. J. Balluff, Detroit, Mich., of counsel), for appellant.

Clarence W. Moore, Washington, D. C. (Joseph F. Nakamura, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for Commissioner of Patents.

Before WORLEY, Chief Judge, RICH, MARTIN and SMITH, Judges, and Judge WILLIAM H. KIRKPATRICK.


KIRKPATRICK, Judge.

This appeal is from a decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office sustaining the examiner's rejection of method claims 22, 24, 25 and 26 and article claims 27 to 31, inclusive, of the appellant Kern's application serial No. 442,478 for a patent for "Fastening Element Designed for Welding," (in this case a weld nut).

The process claims on appeal relate to a method of making weld nuts from a standard square nut blank...

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