In re Harmon

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 over the prior art claims 19 through 22, the only remaining claims in appellant’s application for a patent on a “Rotary Hot Wax Spot Carbon Coating Machine and Method.”

The alleged invention relates to a machine which is used to apply carbon coating to limited areas of continuous lengths of paper. It appears that the resulting product is a type of carbon, paper which has only select portions thereof coated with carbon. The…