In re Anthony

The Primary Examiner of the United States Patent Office finally rejected claims 28 and 29 in appellants’ application for a patent relating to a dry cell battery of the type used in flashlights. Upon appeal, the Board of Appeals, for substantially the same reasons as those assigned by the examiner, affirmed his rejection of said claims; and from the board’s decision, this appeal has been taken.

Claim 20 was also rejected, but upon the ground that it was drawn to a species different from that to which the allowed claims related, and that its rejection was proper unless claims such as those at…