In re Mason

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the rejection by the Primary Examiner, on the ground of lack of invention over prior art, of claims 10 to 13, inclusive, in appellant’s application, No. 210,335, for a patent on improvements in a package.

Claims 10,11, and 12 are representative of the appealed claims and read as follows:

10. A package for a commodity, including the commodity packaged therein, said package having at least one corner said package comprising two webs, one web having a dished portion surrounded by a flat margin,…