APPLICATION OF HIROSHI TANAKA

Patent Appeal No. 76-629.

551 F.2d 855 (1977)

Application of HIROSHI TANAKA et al.

United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

March 10, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph M. Fitzpatrick, Carroll G. Harper, John A. O'Brien, Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto, New York City, attorneys of record, for appellants.

Joseph F. Nakamura, Washington, D.C., for the Commissioner of Patents, Fred W. Sherling, Washington, D.C., of counsel.

Before MARKEY, Chief Judge, and RICH, BALDWIN, LANE and MILLER, Judges.


RICH, Judge.

This appeal is from a decision of the Patent and Trademark Office Board of Appeals (board) affirming the rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 103 of claims 27, 29, 31, 33, 36, 37, and 41 in appellants' application serial No. 133,990, filed April 14, 1971, for reissue of their United States patent No. 3,438,706 entitled "Electrophotographic Device." The board reversed the § 103 rejection of claim 42. The patent is assigned to Canon, Inc. of Japan. We...

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