In re Yount

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming that of the Primary Examiner rejecting all the claims (Nos. 22 to 25, inclusive) of appellant’s application for a patent for an alleged invention for paper bag construction. The claims read as follows:

22. A multi-walled gusset type bag comprising nested tubes united together by a closing seam at the bottom and formed with a gusset at each side, the front and back walls each consisting of a plurality of seamless sheets arranged in horizontally offset relationship forming vertically…