In re Nutman

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the rejection by the Primary Examiner of claims numbered 4 to 7 inclusive, apparently being all the claims in appellant’s application, serial No. 232,879, filed June 21, 1951, entitled “for Plastic Mercury Composition.”

Claim No. 6 which was reproduced by the board as illustrative reads as follows:

6. A Plastic Mercury Composition the Polyamide Combinations and mercury, with the mercuric and mercurous compounds for phonograph needles whether fixed (Permanent) (Electronic) or individual ones.…