In re Jewett

Johnson, Chief Judge,

delievered the opinion of the court:

This is an appeal from a decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office rejecting claims 9, 10, and 11 of the appellants’ application No. 450,149, filed August 16,1954, for “Plano-graphic Printing Plate.”

Claims 7-11, which appellants had substituted for finally rejected claims 1-5, were originally before the board for its consideration. The board’s rejection of claims 7 and 8, on the ground of double patenting over claims allowed in appellants’ prior application No. 199,566, filed December 6, 1950,2 has not been…