Application of Ferguson (Five Cases)

O’CONNELL, Judge.

These are five appeals from the respective decisions of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the decisions of the Primary Examiner rejecting appellant’s five applications, in each of which he sought to obtain a design patent on an alleged improvement for a traffic signal at a street intersection.

Counsel for both sides and the basic principles of law involved in each appeal are the same, and while five separate records and sets of briefs have been filed here, we will dispose of the appeals in a single opinion.

The designs at bar in Appeals Nos. 5944…