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In re Appeals of Drawbaugh

District of Columbia Court of Appeals

Decided September 29, 1896No. Nos. 32 and 31PublishedCited by 12 opinions

Hearing on an appeal from a decision of the Commissioner of Patents rejecting applications for patent for improvements in telephone transmitters. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Alvey

These appeals, Nos. 32 and 34, are from the Patent Office, and present questions of the right to patents for certain alleged new and useful improvements in telephone transmitters. The applications in the two cases are founded upon substantially the same subject of alleged invention, and the questions presented in the two cases are substantially the same; and the two appeals have been argued together as one case, and may therefore be considered and determined together as one case.

The oral argument was heard in November last, but time was given to file additional briefs as to a question of prac*231t…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Seymour v. OsborneSupreme Court of the United States · 1871
  2. Atlantic Works v. BradySupreme Court of the United States · 1883
  3. Coffin v. OgdenSupreme Court of the United States · 1874
  4. Pennock v. DialogueSupreme Court of the United States · 1829
  5. Dolbear v. American Bell Telephone CompanySupreme Court of the United States · 1888

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3Cited by12 opinions

  1. In Re Kuriappan P. Alappat, Edward E. Averill and James G. LarsenCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 1994
  2. Jeffrey Mfg. Co. v. Kingsland, Commissioner of PatentsCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1949
  3. Sinko Tool & Manufacturing Co. v. Automatic Devices Corp.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1943
  4. Application of WilliamsCourt of Customs and Patent Appeals · 1951
  5. Robert C. Watson, Commissioner of Patents v. Chester H. BrunsCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1956

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