Legal Opinion
Matter of the Application of Nathan La Verne and Albert A. Laverne
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided January 20, 1956No. Patent Appeal 6166PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHNSON, Judge.
This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the holding of the Primary Examiner rejecting as unpatentable claims 26 to 37, inclusive, the only remaining claims in appellants’ application for a patent entitled “Art of Decorating Preformed Articles.”
The alleged invention, as defined in the claims, relates to both a method of and an apparatus for applying a design of thermo-fluid paint to a desired surface by means of an offset printing procedure. The offset process, which is admittedly old in the art, consists of…
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