Sinclair Weeks, Secretary of Commerce, and Robert C. Watson, Commissioner of Patents v. Harold Warp, and Flex-O-Glass, an Illinois Corporation

This appeal is taken in a suit under Revised Statutes, Sec. 4915 (1875) as amended, 1 to obtain issuance of a patent.

On May 7, 1940, plaintiff (appellee) Warp filed two applications with the United States Patent Office for patents relating to laminated flexible transparent material. These applications resulted in a rejection of the claims in both patents, with the exception of one claim in one application, by the tribunals of the Patent Office on the ground of unpatent-ability over prior patents. The cases were appealed to the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals and, on March 4,…