Legal Opinion

Application of Roy F. Lopresti and Jerome C. Salmons

Court of Customs and Patent Appeals

Decided July 13, 1964No. Patent Appeal 7159PublishedCited by 15 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SMITH, Judge.

Stripped of verbiage, the issue which emerges from the examiner’s answer and the opinions of the board is the propriety of the rejection of the appealed claims 1 as unpatentable in view of the Craggs and McCann U. S. Patent No. 2,773,257. 2 We agree with the basic proposition that the appealed claims are unpatentable over the reference. The reasons assigned by the examiner for this rejection become confused in the 5 pages of the record devoted to the examiner’s answer. The reasons assigned by the board for its affirmance of the examiner also become confused in the 24 pages of the…

2Cited by15 opinions

  1. Application of Edwin H. Land and Howard G. RogersCourt of Customs and Patent Appeals · 1966
  2. In re FoutCourt of Customs and Patent Appeals · 1982
  3. Application of Willie Fong, Amon H. Brown, William L. Wasley, Robert E. Whitfield and Lowell A. MillerCourt of Customs and Patent Appeals · 1967
  4. In re HellsundCourt of Customs and Patent Appeals · 1973
  5. Tyler Refrigeration Corp. v. Kysor Industrial Corp.District Court, D. Delaware · 1985

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