In re Freeman

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the decision of the examiner rejecting the single claim of appellant’s application for patent. As finally rejected by the examiner the claim was numbered 11, but another numbered 12 was substituted for the appeal, the tribunals of the Patent Office evidently consenting thereto.

According to the specification the subject matter “relates to a practice and apparatus whereby decorative deformations of shoe upper material are so formed therein as to simulate overlay pieces, inset pieces and the…