Application of Maurice E. Hatten

KIRKPATRICK, Judge.

This appeal is from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals affirming the examiner’s final rejection of claim 5, the only remaining claim in the appellant’s application, Serial No. 473,964, filed December 8, 1954, entitled “Anti-Lockout Device for Automobile Doors.”

The board’s rejection was on the ground that the claim is for an obvious combination of old elements, the references relied on being:

Fitz Gerald 2,105,350 January 11, 1938 Azano 2,613,258 October 7, 1952

The appealed claim reads as„ follows:

“5. In a device of the character described the combination with…