Legal Opinion

In re Bush

Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit

Decided February 5, 1917No. 1042Published

Hearing on an appeal from a decision of the Commissioner of Patents rejecting claims of a reissue application for a patent. The facts are stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Orsdel

This appeal by Samuel P. Bush is from a decision of the Commissioner of Patents rejecting four claims of a reissue application, of which claim 1 is illustrative: “1. A yoke for draft gearing, comprising top and bottom members separated to permit the lateral insertion of draft gearing between them, a rear end, and a forward hooded end, the latter constructed to receive the butt end of an ordinary coupler and provided with aligned horizontal openings adapted to receive a key for securing a coupler butt in the hooded end, substantially as set forth.”

In the case of Universal Draft Gear Co. v.…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Universal Draft Gear Attachment Co. v. BushCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1914

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