In re Chaplin

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the Primary Examiner’s rejection of claims 1 to 10 inclusive of appellant’s application No. 118,169 for a patent on an apparatus for manufacturing pulp articles. While it was stated by both the examiner and the board that the claims were rejected on the ground of double patenting in view of appellant’s patent No. 2,388,828, it is evident, as will be pointed out below, that the actual basis on which the appealed claims were refused was lack of adequate disclosure in the appealed application.