Legal Opinion
In Re Shortell
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided April 4, 1944No. Patent Appeal 4901PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LENROOT, Associate Judge.
This appeal presents a question as to whether an improvement made by appellant in a hack saw blade was inventive. The Board of- Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirmed a decision by the Primary Examiner rejecting five claims of appellant’s application for a patent upon the ground of lack of patentability over the prior cited art.
Certain claims were rejected by the examiner which were later withdrawn.
Claims 14 and 21 are illustrative of the subject matter of the claims, and read as follows:
“14. As a new article of manufacture, a hack saw blade provided with…
2Cases cited6 opinions
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- Picard v. United Aircraft CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1942
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- Graham v. John Deere Co. of Kansas CitySupreme Court of the United States · 1966
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