APPLICATION OF ELLIS

Patent Appeal No. 8829.

470 F.2d 1391 (1973)

Application of William R. ELLIS.

United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

January 18, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Walker, III, Memphis, Tenn., attorney of record, for appellant.

S. Wm. Cochran, Washington, D. C., for the Commissioner of Patents; Fred W. Sherling, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Before MARKEY, C. J., RICH, ALMOND, BALDWIN and LANE, Judges.


MARKEY, Chief Judge.

This appeal is from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals affirming the examiner's rejection of claims 1 and 3-5 of appellant's application for "Basic Clamping Mechanism", serial No. 607,496, filed January 5, 1967, as obvious in view of the prior art (35 U.S.C. § 103). We affirm.

The invention relates to a hydraulic mechanism for operating opposed clamping arms of a lift truck. Appellant points out that such arms have...

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