Legal Opinion
In re McNeil
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided December 4, 1906No. 382PublishedCited by 1 opinion
HEARING on appeal from a decision of the Commissioner of Tatents rejecting an application for a patent. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Air. Justice Kobe
delivered tbe opinion of tbe Court:
This is an appeal [by Chester McNeil and Charles L. Sturte-vant] from a decision of the Commissioner of Patents rejecting all the claims, eight in number, of an application for patent.
The 2d, 5th, and 8th claims contain the substance of all, and are as follows:
“2. In a sewing machine, the combination with suitable <fitch-forming mechanism, a- work support, mechanism for feeding a plurality of thicknesses of fabric to the' stitch-forming mechanism, a trimming mechanism, comprising two members, one operating above the work support and having…
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