In re Neal

BALDWIN, Judge.

This appeal is from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals sustaining the examiner’s rejection of the sole claim in appellant’s application.1

The Invention

The claimed invention is a device adapted to be secured to the clothing of the wearer and to support up to some plurality of emblems in spaced relationship thereon. The nature of ¿the device will be apparent from the claim set forth below:

1. An emblem-displaying pin device adapted to be secured onto the clothing of the wearer, comprising a supporting body-member having clothing-securing means extending rearwardly…