Legal Opinion
O'LEARY v. Liggett Drug Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided July 23, 1945No. 9875, 9876, 9903PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARTIN, Circuit Judge.
On an application, dated November 11, 1927, letters patent, No. 1,971,793, entitled “electrical apparatus,” were issued nearly seven years later on August 28, 1934, to William J. O’Leary of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, assignor to a partnership, Walker and Dybvig. The O’Leary apparatus had rough sledding in the United States Patent Office; for the primary examiner rejected the important claims of the application as anticipated in the prior art and as not involving invention. The board of appeals in the patent office, however, reversed the decision of the examiner, except as…
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