Legal Opinion
Application of Wilhelm E. Walles, William F. Tousignant and Thomas Houtman, Jr
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided October 6, 1966No. Patent Appeal 7400PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Judge.
Appealed claims 1-7 were rejected as “unpatentable over” the claims of a patent to Tousignant et al. This rejection was affirmed by the Board of Appeals. We find the rejection to be improper and therefore reverse the decision of the board.
After an extensive prosecution, the appealed claims stood rejected in view of *787the patent previously issued to appellants. While the rejection has been sometimes couched in terms of “double patenting” below, we will first set forth the relationship between the appealed claims and the patent claims before attempting to ascertain the basis for the…
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