Legal Opinion
Pennington v. Commissioner of Patents
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided April 9, 1968No. Civ. A. No. 1831-66PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HOLTZOFF, District Judge.
This is an action against the Commissioner of Patents under 35 U.S.C. § 145, seeking an adjudication that the plaintiff is entitled to a patent on an application that the Commissioner of Patents has rejected.
The application involved was filed by Neal A. Pennington on November 6, 1962 and is numbered 235,784. The alleged invention covered by the application is a humidity changer used in air conditioning apparatus for the purpose of transferring moisture from one moving stream of air to another. The specific structure used for that purpose in the plaintiff’s…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Application of Neal A. PenningtonCourt of Customs and Patent Appeals · 1962
3Cited by2 opinions
- The Plastic Contact Lens Company v. Robert Gottschalk, Commissioner of PatentsCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1973
- Plastic Contact Lens Co. v. SchuylerDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 1971