In re Horton

The appellant, Harry M. Horton, filed his petition on July 5,1928, for an extension of his patent, No. 1165412, dated December 28, 1915, under the provisions of the act of May 31,1928, 45 Stat. 1012.

The statute in question provides, in brief, that any person who served honorably in the military or naval forces of the United States at any time between April 6, 1917, and November 11, 1918, both dates inclusive, and was subsequently honorably discharged, may make application for the extension of a patent which has been theretofore granted to him and which, between the said dates and at the time…