In re Drew

MARTIN, Chief Justice.

The appellant filed an application for a design patent for an “ornamental design for a hunting knife, as shown.” The application was rejected by the Acting Examiner, upon the .ground that the design was not new and original, in view of several cuts appearing in a certain military shops catalogue of the year 1915. The Examiner held- that one of these cuts disclosed a blade and the other a ihandle almost identically like.those appearing in the applicant’s drawing, and that these elements had merely been combined by the applicant to form the proposed design, without the…