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APPLICATION OF RAPATA

Patent Appeal No. 7714.

370 F.2d 584 (1967)

Application of George M. RAPATA.

United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

January 12, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Olson, Trexler, Wolters & Bushnell, Chicago, Ill. (Richard Bushnell and Richard Sturtevant, Chicago, Ill., of counsel), for appellant.

Joseph Schimmel, Washington, D. C. (Lutrelle F. Parker, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for Commissioner of Patents.

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

KIRKPATRICK, Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Board of Appeals affirming the examiner's rejection of appealed claims1 6 through 16. The position of the Patent Office is that the claimed invention is obvious in view of the prior art, 35 U.S.C. § 103.

The claimed invention is a plastic fastener. The prior art relied on is as follows:

  Whitted                 2,976,345     Mar. 21, 1961
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