Legal Opinion
Application of Johnson
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided June 28, 1949No. Patent Appeals 5595PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHNSON, Associate Judge.
Appellant’s application for a design patent for an ornamental design for a pair of pliers (the type known as gas burner and pipe pliers) was rejected 'by the examiner as lacking invention over the references. The Board of Appeals of the U. S. Patent Office affirmed that rejection relying on the following references:
Mihan, 272,573, Feb. 20, 1883;
Smith, 1,290,846, Jan. 7, 1919;
Seger, 2,070,217, Feb. 9, 1937;
“Utica No. 1300” Gas and Burner Pliers, page 218, Hammacher Schlemmer Hardware Co., Catalog No. 500.
Appellant’s pliers present the fundamental configuration of a…
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